Beaufort Fox Hunting

Clayton, Michael / John King: Foxhunting Today - The Golden Thread - Fox Hunting - illustrated with Colour plates, London Methuen 1984 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0413546101
0413546101 Very Good Plus John King illustrations

1984 Hardcover 1st ... Very Good Plus condition ... All 32 Color Plates intact ... Gift Giving quality .... slight bumps edge, 1 corners, slight rubs, light shelf wear to small part cloth spine, slight fade small areas, faint age darkening, as is usual with this volume; very slightly loose ... Especially Nice and clean inside ... very few corners slightly bent ... No slipcase ... Not the most beautiful one we've seen of this 25-year old volume; This is still much nicer than it sounds; more than serviceable for reading and study, and, should you wish, and quite nice enough quality for Gift Giving ... This is a handsomely made book ... Large oblong, over 9 x 12" size; brick colored / ' red fox ' colored cloth over boards, with Gold gilt title on spine, and Gold Gilt Fox design decoration impressed onto front boards; sewn binding, with original dark brown ribbon bookmark still attached ... 192 pages, with index + index of Hunts + List of Hunts in the UK and Ireland + Glossary of Hunt Terms + list of Color illustrations ... The text is illustrated all throughout with dozens and dozens of John King sketches + 32 full-page Colour plates of very handsome watercolor paintings by King ... suitable for framing if you wish ... There is a Preface and Introduction by author Michael Clayton, detailing some of the difficulties of hunting in the 1980s ... and did he but know what was to transpire in the 21st century ! ... as well as chapters on Horses, Hounds, The Shires, The Cotswolds and Midlands, The South-West and West Country, The South and East; Wales, the Borders and West Midlands; The North and Scotland; and Ireland ... Lord Willoughby de Broke is quoted before the Preface: " Foxhunting is the golden thread running through the history of the British countryside " ... The lenghtly text gives details of the hunts all over Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales, with which the author is familiar ... and is highlighed by lively sketches of horses running, jumping, taking spills; going over fences and hedges and stone walls, and more ... The Paintings, many of which were ' borrowed back ' from the collections of such notables as Lady Teresa Agnew, the late Duke of Beaufort, Brigadier B. Kingzett, the Ledbury Hunt, and more ... include : Huntsman Sidney Bailey , the VWH at Eastleach churchyard - Foxes under full moon in front of Badminton House - VWH Mster and hounds study for painting on the retirement of Martin Scott as Maste - exquisite colorful rendition of The Quorn, Barsby Back Lane - The Belvoir - The Grafton , Colonel Neil Foster - The Portman, horses washing off at Manston - The Berkeley - The Cattistock, Major Mike MacEwan, Joint Mster 1965-75, hounds on exercise with deer in Melbury Park - The Burton dyke country - The Limerick - The Tipperary - Kilkenny country looking toward Slievenaman - and many more ... all 32 have been checked carefully; they are all present and accounted for; untouched, untorn, and unmarked ... No previous owner has purloined a picture from this book ... Hours of enjoyment in this poignant look at a time-honoured tradition, as it was some quarter century ago, that exists no more in many parts of Great Britain ... " The Golden Thread - Foxhunting Today " ... by Michael Clayton , with John King ... published by Methuen, London 1984 ... Hardcover, without dustjacket ... *** Securely packed for Safe Delivery ~ We've been shipping books worldwide, since 1965 *** First Edition Hard Cover 9-1/2 x 12 x 1 "; First Edition

[SW: foxhunting, fox hunting, riding to hounds, History : England Scotland Ireland Wales zzz a only]

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EDWARDS Lionel: My Hunting Sketch Book, London Eyre & Spottiswoode 1928 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed.
Very Good Lionel Edwards

Beige cloth with title label to upper board, The label has two small splashes of water marking, Small tear to cloth at head of spine, Small area of bubbling to cloth on the lower board (minor), Some minor discolouration due to dust soiling to the cloth, DW is in reasonably complete state with chipping to head and tail of spine and corners of the panels, the spine edges are worn through at about 50% of the length, There is a 3 inch tear across front panel not affecting text, and a water stain as well, This DW is a beige colour that is soiled and age toned, and it has the title and authors name in black on front panel and no other decoration etc, the rear panel has an advertisement for "Books for the Sportsmans Library",The DW is only Fair but still 'serviceable', Tricky pagination as text pages face plates and there are also many blank leaves also, Preface and Contents xiii 28 numbered text pages, 14 mounted colour plates + frontis Contents; Preface, The Bicester, Hertfordshire,Whaddon Chase, V.W.H. (Cirencester), Earl of Berkeley's, Cottesmore, Fernie's, Pytchley, Duke of Beaufort's, Warwickshire, South Staffordshire, York and Ainsty, Devon and Somerset Staghounds, and The Four Burrow hunts, Each being a one page note by author about the hunt and the sketch he has painted as a reminiscence of it, Generally VG in FAir to Good DW First Edition Fair Cloth Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; First Edition

[SW: horse and hounds the hunt fox-hunting English hunting]

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Beaufort, the Earl of (and others): The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Hunting, (London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906)

8vo; original pictorial cloth; pp. xii + 391 (+ adverts.); line drawings in text. Ex-library copy with label on front pastedown and code on spine; some hand-stamps and codes inside; scattered moderate foxing. Good condition. "The animal chosen as an example of what a hound should be is the Badminton Potentate . . . As a contrast to him the picture of a bad hound is given, his defects being purposely emphasised in order that they may at once strike the observer. Such a nightmare of a hound is not to be discovered in any hunting field, but by a course of injudicious breeding he might conceivably be produced. From head to stern he is all that a hound should not be. His shapeless head is joined by a thick neck to a shockingly clumsy pair of shoulders, which have no liberty of action about them. His legs are weak and crooked; he has the reverse of those 'round cat feet' which Somerville properly desires. He is flat-sided and slack in the loins; his stern is badly put on in the wrong place, and there is a total lack of muscle in his lean and long-drawn thighs."

[SW: The hunt. Fox-hunting. Hounds. Riding. Horsemanship. Badminton Library. Sport Hunting]

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Buchanan-Jardine, John (Sir): Hounds of the World, NY Charles Scribner's Sons 1937 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Very Good Eight coloured plates from paintings by Baron Karl Reille, and twelve coloured plates from paintings by T. Ivester Lloyd, and 24 collotype Plates

green c w/lite sunning of edges, gilt titles; 233 clean, unmarked pages; slight foxing of end papers...Foreword by the Duke of Beaufort. First American Edition No Jacket Hard Cover 4 vo; First American Edition

[SW: Beagles; Fox Hounds; Hunting;]

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