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. 1925. Cloth. A smart second impression of this illustrated collection of prose and verse regarding fox-hunting. Second impression. Illustrated with sixteen monochrome plates and four tipped in colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of interesting writings on fox-hunting and field sport. With chapters on Mr. Egerton Warburton, Major Whyte Melville, Mr. Bromley-Davenport, Beckford, Anthony Trollope, and more. Edited and selected by Lord Willoughby De Broke, a British peer and conservative politician. Illustrated by George Denholm Armour, a British painter and illustrator. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: G. D. Armour. Very Good .

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