"The Life of John Mytton .. with notices of his hunting shooting, driving, racing" by Nimrod and ill. by H. Alken and Rawlins - George Routledge, London - 1877 fourth edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: very good, rebound in fine half leather binding, with all hand coloured engravings. The fourth edition of this work.Illustrated, with a hand-coloured frontispiece and seventeen hand-coloured plates.Collated, complete.To the title page it is noted that this new edition if 'revised and enlarged with a notice of nimrod'. 'Nimrod' is a pseudonym for Charles James Apperley, the Welsh sportsman and sporting writer who wrote many works on the chase.The subject of this biography, John "Mad Jack" Mytton, was an eccentric rake of Regency England. He was known for his flamboyant and eccentric behaviour