1782 Thoughts on Hunting in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend

Description

Early Edition, Leather Binding, Rebound

Handsomely rebound in half speckled calf with vellum corners. 

An insightful work on hunting methods, tips, and opinions, written as a series of letters to a friend, a casual style. A perceptive look into eighteenth-century hunting practices. 

Written by Dorset-based landowner and hunting enthusiast, Sir Peter Beckford (1740-1811). He was a British landowner, hunstman, writer and patron. He wrote several works on his thoughts of hunting. 

Containing a beautiful illustrated frontispiece and two plates to the rear depicting a hunting lodge, as called for.

This copy came from the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). She was an English socialite and through her mother was the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII.

ESTC Citation No. T93430