By Walter Shaw Sparrow
London   John Lane the Bodley Head
10.5" by 8" xxi, [3] 239pp
A heavily illustrated, twentieth-century compilation on hound hunting in Great Britain, edited by Welsh hunting and sporting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow.
By Walter Shaw Sparrow

1926 Nimrod's Hunting Reminiscences

London   John Lane the Bodley Head
10.5" by 8" xxi, [3] 239pp
A heavily illustrated, twentieth-century compilation on hound hunting in Great Britain, edited by Welsh hunting and sporting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow.
£55.00
: 1.5kgs / : 800J27

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A fascinating compiled work on hound hunting in Great Britain, including various stories and reminiscences of hound hunters through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. 

Edited by Welsh sporting and hunting expert, Walter Shaw Sparrow.

Containing six plates in colour, sixteen plates in half tone, eight hunting maps, and twenty-one other in-text illustrations. Collated and complete. 

Illustration contributions are credited to the works of James Seymour, Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick. 

Containing previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper.

Condition

In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally, fading to the spine, joints and extremities. Some shelf wear to the boards, and a small amount of loss to the tail of the front board. Previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. Internally, front hinge is tender but firm. Binding is firm throughout. Pages are bright and clean.

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