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A profusely illustrated five-volume collection from The Lonsdale Library, offering authoritative guides on horsemanship, hunting, shooting, and fishing, with contributions from leading sporting experts of the era. In the publisher's original brown cloth bindings.These volumes are the first trade editions.This collection comprises four volumes from The Lonsdale Library series, published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. between 1929 and 1930, bringing together practical guides on horsemanship, hunting, shooting, and fishing. Richly illustrated with colour and monochrome plates, frontispieces, and in-text images.This collection consists of:Two copies of The Way of a Man with a Horse: A Practical Book on Horsemanship by Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Broke, Veterinary notes by Colonel Todd, and a chapter on Pig-sticking by Lieutenant colonel Arthur Brooke (1929). These copies include over ninety illustrations across 27 double sided monochrome plates and two single monochrome plates, with a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Fox-Hunting (1930) by Sir Charles Frederick, Cecil Aldin, James Andrews, et al. This copy is illustrated with four colour plates, including a colour frontispiece, and 49 monochrome plates with eighteen reproductions of hunting pictures. Collated, complete. Shooting by Moor, Field and Shore: A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Lesie Sprake, Major Portal, et al. (1929). This copy features one hundred and fifty illustrations across nineteen double sided monochrome plates and thirteen single sided plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Trout Fishing from All Angles: A Complete guide to modern methods by Eric Taverner, with a chapter on Trout scales by G. Herbert Nall, and The Legal Aspect of Fishing by Alban Bacon (1929). With two hundred and fifty illustrations, with thirty four monochrome plates including a frontispiece, sixteen of which are double sided, with two plates in colour. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart. Slight damp staining across front board and front joint of spine to one of the copies of "The Way of a Man with a Horse". Previous owner"s inscription to front free endpapers, with the previous bookseller"s discreet label to front paste down, on all copies aside from one copy of "The Way of a Man With a Horse," in which the bookseller's label appears to the rear paste down. Spines slightly faded. The odd slight handling mark to boards and spines. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained in places, but holding firm. Pages bright and clean with one or two pots and handling marks, heavier to the fore edges and first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed.
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