Radcliffe E P Delmé (3 results)

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Thus. 4to, xvi + 302pp. + publisher's advertisement. Profusely illustrated, with numerous wood engravings, hand-colored frontispiece and plates, ornamental hand-colored title preceding the printed title-page. Hardcover, bound in original red pictorial cloth with gilt lettering to spine, black tooled decorations, and gilt tooled fox to spine and gilt horse & rider to front cover. In very good condition overall. Binding is firm and square. Frontispiece and pictorial title-page are foxed, some scattered foxing to pages and plates. Two pages have a previous owner's lightly pencilled marginal notations, which could easily be erased. Rear hinge is starting but binding remains secure. General shelf-wear and light rubbing to boards, a little spotting to back cover. Gilt remains sharp and bright. A handsome copy overall, now protected in a custom-made clear archival dustwrapper.…

, xii, 327 pages, with frontispiece, engraved title page, plus 8 other plates, and wood engravings in the text, presentation copy given to George F. Bonham (2nd Baronet, diplomat, and ambassador to Serbia and Switzerland) on his leaving Eton First Edition , a nice clean and tight binding, small surface scuff to rear cover near spine, nice bright gilt, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and owner's inscription on frontblank, light water stain to frontispiece, internally nice and clean, book in very good condition , full red morocco, with gilt decoration and titles, raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles 25 x 16 cm Hardback ISBN.…

Leather. Condition: Fine. A beautifully bound treatise on fox-hunting, illustrated throughout and with colour plates. In a smart Riviere & Son full crushed morocco signed binding. With ten steel-plate engravings coloured by hand, and eight full-page engravings on wood from original designs by the author, Rev. C. D. Radcliffe. Collated, complete.A comprehensive work on fox-hunting. Fox-hunting with hounds, as a formalised activity, originated in England in the sixteenth century, in a form very similar to that practised until February 2005, when a law banning the activity in England and Wales came into force.A classic work by the Master of the Hertfordshire Hounds, F. P. Delme Radcliffe. This is the fourth edition, revised, corrected and enlarged by William Charles Arlington Blew. With chapters on the Huntsman 'as an intellectual being', 'Management of Hounds', 'System of Kennel' and 'uncertainty of Scent'.With the armorial bookplate of Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Charles Donaldson-Hudson to the front pastedown. Rebound in a full crushed morocco signed binding. Externally, bright. Minor fading to back strip. Binders stamp to front doublure. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Pages of coloured plates age toned due to paper type, Fine. Edwin Landseer; E. Corbet ; J. Bateman (illustrator). book.…