1901 Riding and Hunting
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
Captain M Horace Hayes shares hints and tips on riding horses and hunting. A comprehensive guide with a general view of riding and details on saddling, holding reins, the seat, riding without reins and more. With chapters on hunting with hounds and military riding. The first edition of this work.
Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous other illustrations and figures in text.
From the library of Sir Philip Brocklehurst, known as a member of the Nimrod Expedition in Antarctica of 1907-09 led by Ernest Shackleton.
Condition
In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear and minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. With a minor damp marking and fading to the spine. With minor horizontal tears to the cloth to spine. With Sir L Philip Brocklehurst's bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Extensively illustrated with a frontispiece and throughout.
Good
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