1933-1937 Foxhunting from The Times & More Foxhunting from The Times

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Two volumes. First edition. Two detailed and comprehensive volumes on the sport of foxhunting, with reference to local enthusiasm, the hounds and kennels, relationships between hunter and farmer, the whipper-in, the master of hounds, seasons, weather, the life of the fox, and more. As issued by The Times, a British daily national newspaper based in London. This set contains: Foxhunting from The Times, 1933. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated complete. With a foreword by Seymour Henry Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst, a British nobleman, soldier and newspaper owner. More Foxhunting from The Times, 1937. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen images across fifteen plates. Collated complete. With a foreword by Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, previously styled Viscount Halifax, a senior British Conservative politician who was brought up in a world of religion and hunting.