RADCLIFFE, Frederick Peter ‘Delmé’.
The noble Science: A few general Ideas on Fox-Hunting, for the Use of the rising Generation of Sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire Hunt Club. London, Whitehead & Co. for Rudolph Ackermann, 1839.
8vo, pp. xii, 327, [1]; steel-engraved frontispiece, woodcut title, steel-engraved portrait, and 7 woodcut plates, with numerous woodcut illustrations in text; lightly toned, slight spotting and chipping to frontispiece; publisher’s brown cloth, blocked in blind and gilt; skilfully rebacked in paper, boards lightly dust-stained, sunned, and bumped.
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The noble Science: A few general Ideas on Fox-Hunting, for the Use of the rising Generation of Sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire Hunt Club.
First edition of Radcliffe’s work on fox-hunting with horses and hounds. Gently written by the Master of the Hertfordshire Hounds, the text is accompanied by charming illustrations after drawings by the author’s brother.
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