NICHOLSON, ALBERT.

John Crozier, of Riddings, Master of Hounds.

London and Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, nd. (c.1906). Reprinted from "The Manchester Quarterly", January 1906. John Crozier was the Master of the Blencathra Foxhounds, Threlkeld, Cumberland. Pp.21, portrait frontispiece + 2 further black & white photo plates, owner's bookplate to inside front cover. Grey stiff card cover. VG.

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Book number: 49189

Catalogue: Sport: : Hunting

Keywords: Albert Nicholson John Crozier Riddings Master of Hounds Blencathra Threlkeld Cumberland Hunting 50669 Sport: : Hunting

PRICHARD, H. HESKETH.

Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilderness.

London: William Heinemann, 1910. 1st edition. With a Foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous. Illustrated by Lady Helen Graham, E.G.Caldwell, and from photographs. The author describes his travels in South America, Norway, Newfoundland and Labrador, hunting moose, elk and caribou. Well bound in the original red cloth. Large 8vo. 10.25" x 8.0" x 2.0". pp.14/pp.273[1p. - advert], + 55 leaves of plates as called for (some coloured). Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to front board and an image of a moose. Edges lightly rubbed and corners bumped. Spine a little faded with similar gilt titles. Top page edges gilt (now dulled). Rough-cut page edges. Toning to endpapers. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "Eric Cecil Sebag-Montefiore." Light foxing throughout, but all plates in good condition. G+. ** Lt.-Col. Eric Cecil Sebag-Montefiore (1899-1991). He was educated at Wellington College and then at Sandhurst. He fought in both World Wars, gaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1947 in the service of the Durham Light Infantry. (The Peerage).

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Book number: 45541

Catalogue: Sport: : Hunting

Keywords: Hesketh Prichard Hunting Camps Wood Wilderness Moose Patagonia Cordillera Andes Labrador Newfoundland Norway Elk Canada Caribou Sebag Montefiore 47071 Sport: : Hunting

PSMITH, LEVENSTON.

Lords of the Chase. Tales from The Shires and Beyond.

London: Wordpecker, 1995. 095250018. "A sporting and social history graphically depicting the characters, triumphs drama, humour and bathos of the field in the spirit of the age. Lords of the Chase distils and synthesizes important material from scores of early 18th and 19th century sources to provide a colourful kaleidoscope of equestrianism in a boisterous and extravagant sporting age." Pp.287, black & white frontispiece plus further illustrations in the text. Orange cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Book number: 40044

Catalogue: Sport: : Hunting

Keywords: Psmith Lords Chase Tales Shires Hunting Horses Equestrianism Quorn Riding Chase Deer Hounds Humour Sport 41058 Sport: : Hunting