Hounds & Dogs: Their Care, Training, and Working for Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Hawking, Police Purposes &c.

A smart first edition of this illustrated guide to the care and training of hounds and dogs, from the Lonsdale Library. First edition. The Lonsdale Library Volume XIII. Illustrated with one hundred and ten plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive study of the care and training of hounds and dogs. With chapters on dog breeds, the gundog, the use of dogs in falconry, retrievers, ratting with terriers, hounds, making dogs obedient, police dogs, sheepdogs, and veterinary details. With contributions from various experts and edited by Arthur Croxton Smith, a British sportswriter and expert on dogs and their breeding. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Very Good.…