London, Sports and Sportsmen, Ltd., C. 1935.
Chapters include, Ancient Fox-Hunting, The Foxhounds of England and Wales, Ditto...Scotland, Harriers & Hare-Hunting, Beagles and Beagling, Deer Hunting, The Draghounds of England, Hunting the Wild Hill Jackal of India, Hunting Personalities, etc.
Limited edition number 309 of one thousand copies printed; folio, 38 x 29 cm; xiii, [blank] 513pp., twelve tissue-guarded photogravures and numerous illustrations, many taken from photographs, frontispiece tissue-guard creased, else fine, publisher's chamfered red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt Anthemion dentelles and all edges gilt, fading to spine, otherwise a near-fine copy.
Limited edition number 309 of one thousand copies printed; folio, 38 x 29 cm; xiii, [blank] 513pp., twelve tissue-guarded photogravures and numerous illustrations, many taken from photographs, frontispiece tissue-guard creased, else fine, publisher's chamfered red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt Anthemion dentelles and all edges gilt, fading to spine, otherwise a near-fine copy.
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