Moineau

1926 · 800J27 — London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1926. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 8". Various. A heavily illustrated twentieth-century compilation on hound hunting in Great Britain edited by Welsh hunting and sporting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow. A fascinating compiled work on hound hunting in Great Britain including various stories and reminiscences of hound hunters through the eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Edited by Welsh sporting and hunting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow.Containing six plates in colour sixteen plates in half tone eight hunting maps and twenty-one other in-text illustrations. Collated and complete. Illustration contributions are credited to the works of James Seymour Thomas Weaver T. Woodward Wildrake H. Alken R.B. Davis Hancock W.P. Hodges J. Ramsay Thomas Phillips F.C. Turner John Doyle and Thomas Bewick. Containing previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally fading to the spine joints and extremities. Some shelf wear to the boards and a small amount of loss to the tail of the front board. Previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. Internally front hinge is tender but firm. Binding is firm throughout. Pages are bright and clean. Good John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover