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binding was unique, and his best work was 

 reserved for books on sport. The covers and 

 edges of some such works are embossed in gold, 

 with figures of birds and animals and incidents of 

 the chase, designed by the most able artists of the 

 day. A few of his bindings are real works of art, 

 to which high value attaches. The preface, dated 

 from Much Hadham, near Bishop Stortford, Herts, 

 in 1811, is by Thomas Gosden, who bound many 

 of the editions of this work, which is a collection 

 of verses on field sports, and includes nearly one 

 hundred songs on fox hunting, fifty on hare hunting, 

 and nearly as many in praise of stag-hunting ; 

 upwards of ninety on hunting generally, on racing 

 twenty, on shooting twenty-four, and several on 

 angling, hawking, archery, &c. 



A Hack, the property of Charles Bell, Esq., 

 painted by Abraham Cooper, R.A., was engraved 

 by Scott. 



The Social Day, by Peter Coxe, Esq., con- 

 tains five designs : two by James Ward, R.A., 

 Swans on the Thames and A Spaniel at a 

 Tomb ; one by Abraham Cooper, R.A., A Child 

 found in a Lane by a Traveller ; one by William 

 Henry Pyne, A.R.A., A Barouche and Four, and 

 one by George Garrard, A.R.A., A Park Scene, 

 all of which were engraved by Scott. 



A copy of Waltoiis Angler, which Mr. Sotheby 



