‎Nimrod - Charles James Apperley‎
‎The Chace, The Turf, and the Road by Nimrod - New Edition with Portrait of Author and Illustrations , (Horses, Chasse à courre, courses de chevaux)‎

‎John Murray London , Société Francophone de Cynotechnie Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1870 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, red spine, green clothes guilded In-8 1 vol. - 295 pages‎

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‎Portrait of Nimrod and Engraved title, Frontispiece (2 plates), and 23 endgravings (Text plates and figures), COMPLETE of all illustrations new edition (1870) "Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Contents, List of Illustrations, xviii, Text, 277 pages, catalogue, ii - Charles James Apperley (1777 19 May 1843), English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works on the chase and on the turf, was born at Plasgronow, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire, North Wales in 1777 - Between the years 1805 and 1820 Apperley devoted himself to fox-hunting. From 1813 to 1819 he was the agent for his brother-in-law's estates and lived at Ty Gwyn, Llanbeblig. Around 1821, under the pseudonym of ""Nimrod"", Apperley began to contribute a series of articles to The Sporting Magazine that covered horse races, hunt meets and other sporting events. His references to the personalities of the people he knew or met at such events helped to double the circulation of the magazine within a few years. Mr. Pittman, the proprietor of The Sporting Magazine, gave Nimrod a handsome salary and defrayed all the expenses of his tours. He also gave Nimrod a stud of hunters. After Pittman's death, the proprietors of the magazine sued Apperley for the money that had been advanced. To avoid imprisonment, Apperley moved to Calais in 1830, where he supported himself by writing. Apperley is best known for his two books, The Life of a Sportsman, and Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton, both of which were illustrated with coloured engravings by Henry Thomas Alken (cf : Wikipedia) - nb : La première édition en volume est parue en 1837, celle-ci en 1870. Les textes avaient d'abord été publiés dans le Quaterly Review" nice copy in the original editor's John Murray red and green binding, guilded on the front-part, inside is clean, the paper is very lightly yellowing, no markings, minor wear on the inside part of the spine-end at the end of the volume, it remains a near fine copy, complete of all illustrations‎