Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase : with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses / by Thormanby ... ; with thirty-two portraits.
Published / Created:
London : Hutchinson & Co., 34 Paternoster Row, 1899.Edinburgh : J. Miller & Son, printers
Physical Description:
xii, 471, [1] pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Printer's statement from page [472].
Contents:
The fathers of fox-hunting -- Peter Beckford -- The Fitzhardings -- Squire Forester and Tom Moody -- John Peel -- Hugo Meynell -- The Earls of Yarborough -- Thomas Assheton Smith -- John Mytton -- Lord Forester -- Jack Musters -- The Dukes of Beaufort -- Captain John White -- The Earl of Wilton -- 'Nimrod' (Charles James Apperley) -- 'The other Tom Smith' -- Masters of the Royal Buckhounds -- George Osbaldeston -- The Earl of Cardigan -- Frederick P. DelmeĢ-Radcliffe -- The Fitzwilliams -- Colonel Anstruther Thomson -- The old squire of Dorset (J.J. Farquharson) -- The Dukes of Rutland -- 'The Druid' (H.H. Dixon) -- The Rev. John Russell -- The Wynns of Wynnstay -- The Earls Spencer -- George Lane Fox -- The family of Villebois -- Masters of the Meath -- Major Whyte-Melville -- The Earls of Lonsdale -- Masters of the Devon and Somerset.
Subject Terms:
Hunting -- Great Britain. | Fox hunting -- Great Britain. | Coursing -- Great Britain. | Hunters -- Great Britain -- Biography. | Hounds -- Great Britain. | Horsemanship. | Stanby, Hubert A. -- Presentation inscription from Charles A. Willard. | Willard, Charles -- Presentation inscription to Hubert A. Stanby.
Form/Genre:
Photomechanical prints -- 1899.
Contributors:
Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), publisher. | J. Miller and Son, printer.