Foxes Foxhounds And Fox-Hunting Clapham, Richard Fox Hunting

Tight copy in moderately soiled and lightly rubbed red cloth with bright black titles, fox mask and crossed horn and hunting whip/thong on front board. Top edge of page block darkened. Backstrip cloth sunned but black titles and jumping fox remain legible. 318pp. (All plates present) Forty B/W plates from photographs, thirty-three text figures and a frontispiece by Lionel Edwards. Signed by previous owner on FEP. Pages are untrimmed, and clean-smelling. Rare first edition of this fundamental work covering all aspects of the sport including: The Fox Family, The British Red Fox, Cubs, The Cub as Hunter, The Hunted Cub, In the Shires, The Hill Fox, Scent, Pace, Earth Stopping, Artificial Earths and Digging Out, The Modern Foxhound, The Foxhound's Feet, Nose and Tongue, The Hound's Hind-Quarters, Fell Hounds, Fell Hunting, Harriers for Fox-Hunting, The Trail Hound, Kennel Terriers, The Puppy at Walk, On Halloing, Wire, Hunting Horns and Hunting Cries, Old Times and Old Characters, A Famous Lakeland Foxhound Pack, Fox-Hunting in May, Hunting in the Snow, Marts and Mart Hunting, Fox-Hunting Abroad, Fox-Farming, Index.