1934 The Flying Parson and Dick Christian

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

First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, fourteen colour plates, twenty-three monochrome plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of writings on hunting and equestrian sports, with reference to the life and letters of Richard Christian, or Dick Christian, an English horseman. This work contains writing from Reverend John Empson, a British clergyman known and respected by Christian, who was best known as the famous ‘Flying Parson’, because of his insatiable and nerveless passion for hunting. Written and edited by Major Thomas Guy Frederick Paget, a British soldier and Conservative Party politician, and Lionel Irvine, a British editor. Illustrated by Charles Walter Simpson, an English painter.