Cock-Fighting, Angling, etc. 16mo, full brown morocco, blind tooling, with ornaments on back and in corners, in red. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, 1719 201. HUNTING AND SPORTING NOTES in the West Midlands, Season 1885-6. With accounts of Sport by "Borderer." Portraits and illustrations. 12mo, cloth. London, 1886 202. "IMPECUNIOSUS," pseud. Unasked Advice: A Series of Articles on Horses and Hunting, reprinted from "The Field." 8vo, cloth. London, 1872 203. FIRST EDITION. Author's presentation copy. Another copy. 204. JOHNSON (T. B.). The Hunting Directory; containing a compendious view of the Ancient and Modern Systems of the Chase. 8vo, original boards, cloth back (worn), uncut. London, 1830 205. JONES (THOMAS). A Diary of the Quorndon Hunt. from the year 1791 to 1800, inclusive, in which will be given a succinct detail of every day's sport, the Covers Broke, the Track Pursued, and the Final Result of Each Run. 8vo, full brown morocco, onlaid panelled sides, with a gilt Fox and Whip impressed on front cover, uncut. Derby, 1816 FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION; with two contemporary clippings on the Hertfordshire Hounds pasted in. Contains at the end the Poem on the Billesdon Coplow Hunt of Feb. 24, 1800. 206. KEMPSON (F. CLAUDE). The Trinity Foot-Beagles. An informal record of Cambridge Sport during the past Fifty Years. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. London, 1912 FIRST EDITION, with "Presentation copy" stamp on title. 207. LAWRENCE (JOHN). The History and Delineation of the Horse, in all his Varieties. Engraved title and numerous fine engraved plates of Horses, together with many beautiful vignettes, mostly engraved by Bewick. 4to, half green straight-grain morocco, uncut (slight rip in one hinge). Albion Press, 1809 FIRST EDITION. SCARCE. 208. [] The Sportsman's Calendar. Woodcut vignettes. 16mo, original boards, uncut, paper label (a few pp. spotted). FIRST EDITION. SCARCE. London, 1818 209. LEECH (JOHN). Pictures of Life and Character. With over 200 reproductions of Leech's humorous drawings, with dialogues. Oblong 8vo, three-quarter calf, gilt edges. New York, n. d. 210. LEVINGE (SIR RICHARD). A Day with the Brookside Harriers at Brighton. 16mo, original pictorial boards. In slip case. London, 1858 FIRST EDITION. SCARCE. With the leaves of advertisements and the slip announcing Sam Slick in England. 211. LOTHIAN HOUNDS. Days with the Lothian Hounds in Spring 1872. By an Old Sportsman. 12mo, boards, morocco back (worn). Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1872 RARE. Reprinted from "The Edinburgh Courant." Throughout the volume are marginal MS. notes by George A. Fothergill, whose copy this was, describing similar runs in his own experience. 212. LOWTH (ROBERT). Billesdon Coplow, a Poem, descriptive of a Remarkable Day's Sport in Leicestershire, Feb. 24, 1800. Frontispiece in color. 16mo, original printed wrapper, rebacked. London, 1831 FIRST EDITION. With the Buxton Forman bookplate. UNIQUE HUNTING DIARY 213. MANUSCRIPT. THE MANUSCRIPT HUNTING DIARY of Edward Chaddock Lowndes of Castle Combe, from 1857-1907, written on upwards of 700 pages, entirely in his own autograph, giving accounts of the various runs, incidents, etc., while hunting with the Hurworth, York and Ainstey, Bedale, Durham County, Pytchley, Hambleton, Duke of Cleveland, Cambridgeshire, Lord H. Bentinck, Warwickshire, Duke of Beaufort, and other Hunts. 7 vols., 12mo, limp morocco. In full morocco solander case. A MOST INTERESTING AND VERY GRAPHIC UNPUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF THESE VARIOUS HUNTS, COVERING A PERIOD OF 50 YEARS. 214. MASON (FINCH). Flowers of the Hunt. With 40 illustrations by the author, including 20 full-page sketches. 8vo, cloth, gilt edges. London, 1889 With bookplate and autograph of A. C. Lucas. 215. MEYNELLIAN SCIENCE (THE); or, Fox-Hunting upon System. 12mo, polished red morocco, line-tooled, with Fox heads in corners of sides, gilt edges, by Hayday. London, 1848 VERY SCARCE, as only a few copies were printed for presents. 216. MILLS (JOHN). The Old English Gentleman; or, The Fields and the Woods. 3 vols., 12mo, half calf. 217. FIRST EDITION. London: Henry Colburn, 1841 The Stage Coach; or, the Road of Life. Frontispieces. 3 vols., 12mo, original cloth, uncut. London: Henry Colburn, 1843 FIRST EDITION. 218. [——] D'Horsay; or, the Follies of the Day. By a Man of Fashion. Engraved plates (a little soiled). 8vo, half wine-color calf, gilt top, uncut. London, 1844 FIRST EDITION. 219. The Sportsman's Library. Lithographed plates. 8vo, cloth, uncut (re-hinged). Edinburgh: Tait, 1845 FIRST EDITION. SCARCE. 220. The Life of a Foxhound. With 7 steel engravings. 12mo, cloth, uncut (a few time discolorations). London, 1848 221. FIRST EDITION. Our Country. 3 vols., 8vo, original cloth, uncut (one hinge a little split). FIRST EDITION. 222. uncut. 223. The Belle of the Village. 3 vols., 12mo, original cloth, FIRST EDITION. The Flyers of the Hunt. Colored illustrations by John Leech. 12mo, cloth. London, 1859 FIRST EDITION. 224. The Life of a Racehorse, 1861; Stable Secrets, 1863. Illustrated. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth. London, 1861-3 225. Too Fast to Last. 3 vols., 12mo, half red morocco, emblematically tooled backs, gilt tops, uncut. FIRST EDITION. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1881 226. On the Spur of the Moment. 3 vols., 12mo, half red morocco, emblematically tooled backs, gilt tops, uncut, original covers bound in. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1884 FIRST EDITION. 227. Christmas in the Olden Time; or, The Wassail Bowl. Title in red and green in imitation of Dickens' Christmas Books. Illustrations. 16mo, original red cloth. 228. FIRST EDITION. London, n. d. The English Fireside. A Tale of the Past. 3 vols., 12mo, half red morocco, gilt edges. 229. FIRST EDITION. London: Saunders and Otley, n. d. The Old Hall; or, Hearth and Homestead. 3 vols., 12mo, half red morocco, gilt edges. London: T. C. Newby, n. d. FIRST EDITION. 230. [MILNOR (WILLIAM).] An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State of Schuylkill, from its Establishment on that romantic Stream, near Philadelphia, in the Year 1732, to the Present Time. By a Member. Lithographed portraits and plates. 8vo, original cloth, paper label on side. In half morocco slip case. Philadelphia, 1830 THE RARE FIRST EDITION. Contains at the end "Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, near Philadelphia," with separate title and pagination. This Club contained among its members sportsmen from the best old Philadelphia families. Laid in is an A. L. s. of Robert Wharton; Mayor of Philadelphia, dated July 20, 1821 (torn in fold); Broadside Poem on the 150th Anniversary of the Schuylkill Fishing Club; and interesting clippings relating to this Club. |