1893 The Life of John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding

Bound in a half red morocco binding with marbled paper boards.

Illustrated with 16 colour plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. 

This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from a copy held at the National Library of Wales.

This engaging biography chronicles the wild life of John "Mad Jack" Mytton, a notorious British eccentric and rake of the Regency era. Inheriting the family estate of Halston Hall, Whittington, at just two years old, Mytton was soon expelled from both Westminster and Harrow before turning his mischief on a string of private tutors.

With accounts and anecdotes of his extravagant spending, hunts, debts, and correspondence, a handful of which are between Mytton and the author of this biography, 'Nimrod' the pseudonym of Charles James Apperley (c. 1777–1843), a sportsman and sporting writer.