The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting

A beautifully bound treatise on fox-hunting, illustrated throughout and with colour plates. In a smart Riviere & Son full crushed morocco signed binding. With ten steel-plate engravings coloured by hand, and eight full-page engravings on wood from original designs by the author, Rev. C. D. Radcliffe. Collated, complete.A comprehensive work on fox-hunting. Fox-hunting with hounds, as a formalised activity, originated in England in the sixteenth century, in a form very similar to that practised until February 2005, when a law banning the activity in England and Wales came into force.A classic work by the Master of the Hertfordshire Hounds, F. P. Delme Radcliffe. This is the fourth edition, revised, corrected and enlarged by William Charles Arlington Blew. With chapters on the Huntsman 'as an intellectual being', 'Management of Hounds', 'System of Kennel' and 'uncertainty of Scent'.With the armorial bookplate of Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Charles Donaldson-Hudson to the front pastedown. Rebound in a full crushed morocco signed binding. Externally, bright. Minor fading to back strip. Binders stamp to front doublure. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Pages of coloured plates age toned due to paper type, Fine.