London (Tavistock Street) : Country Life Press, [1926]
Physical Description:
[16] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 57 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Folio B 2011 15Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Introduction by Crascredo.Edition limited to 100 autographed copies numbered 1 to 100, and 550 unsigned copies, numbered 101 to 650.Plates are accompanied by tissue guardsheets with descriptive letterpress.With an illustrated title page.BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 617 of 650. Bound in publisher's original rust-colored cloth, black lettering on front cover; with illustrated dust jacket.18 color reproductions, including frontispiece, of paintings by British artist Lionel Edwards, mounted on thick paper with deckled edges.
Contents:
In the Badminton country (His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, M.F.H.) -- Cubbing in the woodlands -- The King's Highway -- Rounding Tattenham Corner -- The challenge (Exmoor) -- Water of Lethe -- A hunt steeplechase -- The last chukker -- Eighteenth-century stables at Holnicote -- Partridge shooting -- A moorland gallop -- Down the water (Devon and Somerset) -- A Devon stream -- A Highland funeral -- Hind hunting. Back into Horner (Devon and Somerset) -- Nearing the end -- Hounds at exercise -- Hind hunting. The Mort (Stoke, Coombe, Devon and Somerset).