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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1930). (1930) 1943 reprint. 8vo (144 x 221mm). Pp368. B/w photograph plates & illustrations, 4 colour plates, bibliography. Gilt monogram to brown buckram, spine titled in gilt. Rather browned and used but a good copy in rather tanned and frayed dust-wrapper. A fairly comprehensive manual of the pre-war British and Irish hunting scene. Chapters include: Fox-hunting in the past; The fox; The master of hounds; The hunt secretary's problems, financial and otherwise; The huntsman in the field; The duties of the whipper-in, etc; The modern fox-hound; Kennel management and the duties of the staff; Fox coverts and their care, with a note on earthstopping; The hunt terrier; Foxes and game preserving; The manners and customs of the hunting field; Horses; 'Riding to hounds'; A Pytchley gallop; Incidents and accidents; First-aid and hunting accidents; First-aid to horses in the hunting field; Hunter shows and trials; The organisation of a point-to-point meeting; Following fox-hounds on foot; A week in Leicestershire; Northamptonshire; Gloucestershire; Yorkshire hunting; Fox-hunting in the Home Counties; Fox-hunting in the West; Fox-hunting in Lakeland; Fox-hunting in Ireland; Fox-hunting in Scotland; Fox-hunting in Wales; A fox-hunter's bookshelf; Hunting pictures. With contributions from Cecil Aldin, James Andrews, Isaac Bell, M.E. Barclay, Earl Bathhurst, M. Borwick, Geoffry Brooke, Major Burnaby, L.C.R. Cameron, Richard Clapham, J.D.D. Evans, Charles McNeill, G.R. Mott, Guy Paget, Otho Paget, Eric Parker, A.P. Pollok, Lord George Scott, A.G. Todd, E. Venn and V.D.S. Williams. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Signed limited first edition, in all 375 this being number 7 of the first ten not offered for sale, signed by the editor on the Publisher's Note and the coloured tipped in frontis piece signed by Lionel Edwards, octavo, full blue leather, light wear to corners, two small bruises on front sunning to spine, gilt decoration on front and titles across spine, top edges gilt, toning to untrimmed edges otherwise internally clean and bright, illustrated with 61 tipped in plates of which four in full colour, 368 pages. a very handsome beautifully produced volume. Heavy item (1.5kg net weight) may require additional for shipping. [QH] [QP]. EDWARDS, Lionel et alia. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …