1900 Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton Esq. of Halton Shropshire

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the publisher's original green cloth binding.

A facsimile printing of the second enlarged edition of this work (1837).

Illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen colour plates by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlings. Collated, complete.

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' (Charles James Apperley), a sportsman and sporting writer.