Author: William Beckford [Peter Beckford]
Title: Thoughts on Hunting, in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend
Description: London, Albion Press: Printed for James Cundee, and Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 . Leather. A richly illustrated edition of Beckford's detailed and personal guide to hunting in the late eighteenth century. First published in 1781 under the title 'Thoughts upon Hunting&apos.Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page, and nine plates, one of which is folding. Collated, complete.Illustrated by Mr. John Scott.With the armorial bookplate of distinguished British Army officer Colonel Alfred Dyke Acland to the front pastedown.With the former owners' inscription of 'Beckitt, Thorne' to the title page head.With an advertisement leaf to the rear.Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.A guide to hunting from British writer, planter, art collector and politician Sir Peter Beckford. A prominent member in the English fox hunting community, he owned a pack of hunting dogs and wrote this work as a guide to the practise. Rebacked, retaining the original tree calf boards. Gilt detailing to back strip. Light rubbing to board perimeters. Hinges strained but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to title page head. Spotting and foxing to engraved title page and plates, with pages bright and generally clean, with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Mr. John Scott. Very Good .

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