First edition. first printing. 192pp, with black and white plate illustrations. Yellow cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. 8vo. Mild ridge in cloth along backstrip, very gently rubbed on corners, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.
Mad Jack Mytton, as he was known, (1796-1834) was an aristocrat, rake and eccentric of the Regency period, briefly a Tory Member of Parliament (paying for his votes) for Shrewsbury and sometime High Sheriff of Shropshire and Merionethshire. Disreputable, he was a gambler and enjoyed horse-racing - his horse won the Gold Cup in 1825 - as well as hunting. A spend thrift, he was often in debt, and ultimately imprisoned in Shrewsbury Goal.
