RADCLIFFE, Frederick Peter Delmé.
The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting,
The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting,
for the Use of the Rising Generation of Sportsmen, and More Especially Those of the Hertfordshire Hunt Club.
Stock Code 124305
London, Rudolph Ackerman, 1839.
This volume also contains a fantastic array of illustrations by Delmé Radcliffe's brother, as well as chapters on the management of hounds, the huntsman as an intellectual being, duties in kennel and in the field, and horsemanship.
First edition, 8vo (26 x 17 cm); illustrated title-page, steel-engraved frontispiece and one other plate, seven full-page wood-engraved plates, as well as engraved plans and numerous engraved head and tail pieces throughout, damp-staining to prefatory pages, some light spotting throughout, otherwise clean internally; half green morocco over cloth boards, ruled in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, featuring relevant fox-hunting emblems in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, small chip to top-edge of spine, slight wear to extremities and board edges, joints slightly frayed, very good; vii, 327 pp.
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