1979 Hounds of the World

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

A limited edition of six hundred copies, of which this is numbered forty.

Signed by the author to the limitation leaf.

In the original unclipped dust wrapper.

'Hounds of the World' offers a comprehensive study of all breeds of dogs employed for hunting in England, France, and America.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, nineteen colour plates, and twenty-four collotype plates. Collated, complete.

By Sir John Buchanan-Jardine.

With a foreword by the Duke of Beaufort, Henry Somerset, who held the office of Master of the Horse for over forty years.

Illustrations by Baron Karl Reille and T. Ivester Lloyd.