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BECKFORD, Peter (1740-1811). Thoughts on Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend. Salisbury: E. Easton, 1781. 4° (210 x 166mm). Engraved frontispiece by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, engraved plate and plan of a kennel at the end, half title. (A few leaves very lightly browned.) UNCUT IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, paper label on spine (lightly rubbed), folding cloth box. Provenance: G. Mason (lightly deleted) alias H. Perin (contemporary inscription on an endpaper).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS FOX AND HARE HUNTING CLASSIC. The author was a scholar as well as sportsman, and according to Sir Egerton Brydges could 'bag a fox in Greek, find a hare in Latin, inspect his kennels in Italian, and direct the economy of his stables in exquisite French' (see Cambridge History of English and American Literature, vol. XIV, 'The Victorian Age', pt. 2, p. 22). Lowndes p. 142; Schwerdt I, p. 56.
BECKFORD, Peter. Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting. London: Vernor and Hood, 1796. 8° (210 x 120mm). 20 engraved plates by Scott, Cook, Howitt and others. (Light browning and spotting, one plate caption shaved.) Sprinkled calf gilt by Roger de Coverly, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). A finely-illustrated edition of the previous work. Schwerdt I, p. 56; and 2 later editions of the same (1810 and [1820]). (4)
FIRST EDITION OF THIS FOX AND HARE HUNTING CLASSIC. The author was a scholar as well as sportsman, and according to Sir Egerton Brydges could 'bag a fox in Greek, find a hare in Latin, inspect his kennels in Italian, and direct the economy of his stables in exquisite French' (see Cambridge History of English and American Literature, vol. XIV, 'The Victorian Age', pt. 2, p. 22). Lowndes p. 142; Schwerdt I, p. 56.
BECKFORD, Peter. Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting. London: Vernor and Hood, 1796. 8° (210 x 120mm). 20 engraved plates by Scott, Cook, Howitt and others. (Light browning and spotting, one plate caption shaved.) Sprinkled calf gilt by Roger de Coverly, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). A finely-illustrated edition of the previous work. Schwerdt I, p. 56; and 2 later editions of the same (1810 and [1820]). (4)
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