The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting, For The Use of The Rising Generation of Sportsmen and More Especially Those of the Hertfordshire Hunt Club.. Questo articolo non è disponibile.The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting, For The Use of The Rising Generation of Sportsmen and More Especially Those of the Hertfordshire Hunt Club.

First edition. Royal octavo (25.5 x 17cm), published at 14s. 'A book which ought to be in the hands of every fox-hunter'- Allibone. pp.xii,327. With an additional engraved title, frontispiece on steel, seven full-page wood-engraved plates, one other steel plate, vignettes & plans. Some light foxing to the early blank leaves, frontis & engraved title, otherwise a clean & fresh copy. Bound in 20th C full red straight-grained morocco, elaborately gilt to boards & spine with fox devices & richly gilded dentelles. The original cloth covers, front & rear, plus the spine, bound at the end. Teg. VG. [Schwerdt II, 122; Allibone 1722; Slater 84; Biscotti 295; Ford 228].