Author: Lord Willoughby De Broke
Title: The Sport of Our Ancestors Being a Collection of Prose and Verse Setting Forth the Sport of Fox-Hunting As They Knew It
Description: London, Constable and Co. Ltd. 1921. First edition. Cloth. A handsome illustrated work regarding fox hunting, the first edition in the original cloth with gilt motif. The first edition of the work. Bookplate to front pastedown with horse shoe design. With a frontispiece and nineteen tipped in plates, several of which are in colour. Collated complete. An interesting work bringing together different works regarding fox hunting. Edited and with an introduction by Lord Willoughby De Broke and illustrated by G. D. Armour. Includes works from authors such as Anthony Trollope, Bromley-Davenport and Major Whyte Melville. In the original red cloth binding. Externally very smart with slight bumping to the extremities. Slight fading to the spine. The odd mark to the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: G. D, Armour. Very Good Indeed .

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