1810 Thoughts on Hunting, In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

First published in 1781 under the title 'Thoughts upon Hunting'.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page, and nine plates, one of which is folding. Collated, complete.

Illustrated by Mr. John Scott.

With the armorial bookplate of distinguished British Army officer Colonel Alfred Dyke Acland to the front pastedown.

With the former owners' inscription of 'Beckitt, Thorne' to the title page head.

With an advertisement leaf to the rear.

Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.

A guide to hunting from British writer, planter, art collector and politician Sir Peter Beckford. A prominent member in the English fox hunting community, he owned a pack of hunting dogs and wrote this work as a guide to the practise.