1899 Thoughts on Hunting in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates, one of which is folding. Collated complete. A collection of letters on hunting, written to a friend, with reference to the kennels and the hounds in general, breeding, diseases, hare-hunting, fox-chasing, halloos, the whipper-in, the huntsman, and more. This work serves as a guide to the practice, and includes commentary on country life. Written by Sir Peter Beckford, a British writer, planter, art collector and politician who was a prominent member in the English fox hunting community. Illustrated by G. H. Jalland and others. Previously held in the library of Lewis Pugh Evans Pugh, a Welsh lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons.