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    By "Cecil" [Cornelius Tongue]
    London   Saunders, Otley, and Co.
    8" by 5.5" xiii, 439, (3), 16pp.
    A smart first edition of this collection of hunting tours from the author "Cecil".
    By "Cecil" [Cornelius Tongue]

    1864 Hunting Tours: Descriptive of Various Fashionable Countries and Establishments, with Anecdotes of Masters of Hounds and Others Connected with Foxhunting

    London   Saunders, Otley, and Co.
    8" by 5.5" xiii, 439, (3), 16pp.
    A smart first edition of this collection of hunting tours from the author "Cecil".
    £35.00
    : 0.75kgs / : 922T30
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    Description

    First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    First edition. With a colour frontispiece. A collection of accounts of hunting tours, with chapters on: The Albrighton Country and Mr. Stubbs' Hounds. The Old Berkshire Hounds and Country, A Day on the Flags in 1862, Hertfordshire Hounds and Country, The Quorn Country and Lord' Stamford's Hounds - Their Opening Day, and much more. Written by "Cecil" or Cornelius Tongue, a British sport writer. With the publisher's catalogue to the rear.

    Condition

    In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss of the cloth to the head and tail of the spine with a small split in the cloth to the rear joint. Joints starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the foredge. Minor age toning and spotting to the endpapers with residue of a removed bookplate to the front pastedown.

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