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Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Inner hinges have been strengthened. Book plate inside front cover. Name in ink on half-title page. All hand-colored plates are present and quite good save one has a marginal crease. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10". 359 pages. Full refund if not satisfied.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1839 Ackerman in 3/4 gilt accented red leather over cloth. 5 Hub spine with gilt devices. Top edge gilt. Tight binding no marks. Illustrated. D71 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. Rev. C. D. Radcliffe; Various (illustrator). A complete two-volume set of new editions of this classic fox-hunting authority, richly illustrated with hand-coloured plates and revised by leading sporting experts to reflect contemporary field practice. In the publisher's original green cloth bindings.A complete two-volume set of this classic authority on British field sport and hound management, issued here in two revised and enlarged editions, consisting of:Volume I (1891) by Robert T. Vyner, published by the Blackfriars Publishing Company, is the seventh edition. It offers a comprehensive study of fox-hunting practice and kennel management, illustrated with six hand-coloured plates including a frontispiece (disbound and loosely inserted), and remains one of the foundational texts on the sport. Collated, complete.Volume II (1911) by F. P. Delmé Radcliffe, published by George Routledge & Sons, continues the instructional and historical theme with detailed guidance on hounds, hunting etiquette, and country craft. This volume features five hand-coloured steel-plate engravings, four full-page wood engravings, and eleven engraved head- and tail-pieces (frontispiece likewise disbound and loosely inserted). Collated, complete.Both volumes were revised and updated by William C. A. Blew and Cuthbert Bradley, two recognised authorities on hunting and sporting art. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities and boards, resulting in slight loss to extremities. Loss to head and tails of spines with the odd small closed tear. Spines slightly faded. Library annotations to spines. Bookplate of Charles and Eliza Markham, gifted to the free Library of Northampton, to front paste downs. Library loan slip neatly affixed to the gutter of the front free endpaper of volume I. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Library stamps and annotations to verso of title pages. Library blind stamping to title pages and the odd page throughout, including the odd plate. Rear joints slightly cracked at upper extremities, but holding. Internally, generally firmly bound. Frontispieces disbound and loosely inserted. Slight tearing to fore edge of the frontispiece of volume I. Hinges strained in places, with binding materials slightly exposed, but holding. Pages generally bright and clean with one or two spots and handling marks, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edges. Slight age toning to fore edges. Good Only. book.

xxviii [1] 331 pp. With 10 steel-plate engravings coloured by hand and 35 wood engravings in the text. Large 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth, t.e.g. A New Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged by William C. A. Blew. Old ink ownership stamps; light foxing to the first few and the last few leaves; long narrow abrasion to the front free endpaper; but a tight and sound copy.

Leather. Condition: Fine. Edwin Landseer; E. Corbet ; J. Bateman (illustrator). 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. book.