Sporting Incidents: Being a Collection of Sixteen Plates Done in Color, with Numerous Smaller Cuts, Representing the Most Important Events of the Track, Field and Road

Allen, W. S. Vanderbilt, Designs by. With an Introduction by Colonel William Jay. The Whole Described in Text by H. Milford Steele

Henry T. Thomas, New York, 1893

Limited edition of 1000 copies. Four parts, complete (all published) bound as one.  Large folio, 61 x 48 cm. Bound in 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards. Leather spine labels with gilt. Original color pictorial wrappers bound in. Some conservation efforts to wrappers, particularly of part 1.  Title vignette, 16 vignettes, as well as 16 color heliographic plates by W. S. Vanderbilt Allen.  Library perforated stamp on title page, limitation page and on bottom right margin of the color plate pages.  Bottom blank corner of plates 1, 2 and 10 chipped with loss to margin corner.  "The cover title calls for 'A collection of Forty-four plates of Coaching, Hunting, Amateur Races and Horses in Show Rings' but the project was never finished." - Christies, The Le Vivier Library of Sporting Books and Modern First Editions30 October 2012, London, Sale 4354.   Vanderbilt Allen was a grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and was trained in Paris by Gerome and Claude Monet.  Refs: Bennett, p. 101. Scarce portfolios.  

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