Interspersed With Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, And Doings Of Sporting Men, Including Notices Of The Principal Riders Of England, To Which Are Added Nimrod's Letters On Riding To Hounds, With Analytical Contents And General Index Of Names.
Nimrod's Hunting Tours Interspersed With Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, And Doings Of Sporting Men, Including Notices Of The Principal Riders Of England, To Which Are Added Nimrod's Letters On Riding To Hounds, With Analytical Contents And General Index Of Names.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1903.
Limited edition, one of 500 copies. In a handsome contemporary binding of half red morocco over marbled boards. Five raised bands with gilt ruled compartments and gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Eighteen colour plates of nineteenth century hunting scenes, each with captioned tissue guards. A near fine copy, the spine a little faded. The tissue guard to the frontispiece with a 75mm closed tear.
A handsome limited edition reproduction of Nimrod's Hunting Tours, first published in 1835. The tours described cover hunts in Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Surrey, Sussex, Dorset, Devon, Hampshire, The New Forest and Yorkshire.
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