1931 Racecourse and Hunting Field: The Doncaster St. Leger and Melton in 1830

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First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

First edition. Limited to seven hundred and fifty copies. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and four colour head and tail pieces. Collated complete. A detailed commentary on important racecourses and hunting fields, with sections on The Doncaster St. Leger and Melton in 1830, including lists of starters and placing. Written by Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, a British poet, and Ralph Bernal Osborne, a British Liberal politician. Edited with an introduction by Samuel Joseph Looker, an English writer. Illustrated by Lesley Blanch, a British artist and illustrator.