Author: Beckford, Peter
Title: THOUGHTS UPON HARE & FOX HUNTING In a Series of Letters to a Friend in Which are give ample directions for erecting a kennel, the management of hounds, and the duties and qualifications necessary for a huntsman and whipper-in.
Description: London, Jonathan Cape MCMXXXI Coloured plates [16] in collotype and ofset lithography . 8vo transparent dust jacket with paper & printed paper flaps.Red cloth with silver titling [sl. darkeniing of cloth to upper and lower parts of covers/tips rubbed] Half title + Frontispiece + titlepage + 7-327pp Fore-edge & bottom edges uncut. Name "H.Cooper Xmas 1937" in ink on the pastedown else a very clean crisp copy. First published 1781 and this edition reprinted from the illustrated edition of 1796 with this the first Cape edition.

Keywords: hunting colour plates


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