1924-1938 Hold Hard! Hounds, Please!; Bells of the Chase; A Fox-Hunter's Anthology; Hunting, Showing and ‘Chasing: With Chapters on Hunter Trials and Breaking and Making a Hunter Colt

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Four first edition works pertaining to the world of hunting, from well-versed guides to understanding and managing fox-hounds, to personal memoirs of the field. 

In the publisher's original red cloth bindings. With a colour illustration to the front board of 'Fox-Hunter's Anthology'. 

This set includes the following titles:

'Hold Hard! Hounds, Please! A Discourse on the Fox-Hound in Field Covert and Kennel; with Hunting Yarns, Character Sketches from Life, and Some Notes on Breeding and Kennel Treatment by “Yoi-Over” (1924)

With a frontispiece and four monochrome plates. Collated, complete. 


Bells of the Chase by "Yoi-Over" (1927)
With a frontispiece and seven monochrome plates by the author. Collated, complete. 

Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. 


A Fox-Hunter's Anthology Compiled by Peter Lewis (1934)
With a coloured frontispiece and four monochrome plates. Collated, complete. 

Hunting, Showing and ‘Chasing: With Chapters on Hunter Trials and Breaking and Making a Hunter Colt by Sam Marsh (1938)
With a frontispiece and twenty-two monochrome plates. Collated, complete. 

With sixteen pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.