Thoughts on Hunting

  • Illustrated with engravings by John Scott after Berenger. Frontispiece, engraved title, seven plates & fold out plate of kennel.
  • London: Albion Press: Printed for James Cundee, Ivy-Lane; Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 31 Poultry, 1810
By Beckford, William [sic] [i.e. Peter]
London: Albion Press: Printed for James Cundee, Ivy-Lane; Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 31 Poultry, 1810. Fine new edition. Illustrated with engravings by John Scott after Berenger. Frontispiece, engraved title, seven plates & fold out plate of kennel. 314 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full crimson morocco, gilt emblematic spine tooling, t.e.g., by Wood, London. Spine slightly darkened. Fine. Fine new edition. Illustrated with engravings by John Scott after Berenger. Frontispiece, engraved title, seven plates & fold out plate of kennel. 314 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The allegorical frontispiece depicts “Diana preparing for the Chace …”; the plates comprise “Finding a Hare”, “In View” (two hounds after a hare), “The Chace”, “Going into Cover”, “Death of the Fox”, “Earth Stopping”, and “Pointers”. Podeschi 64; Schwerdt I, p. 56; Gee, Sportsman's Library p. 8 (“The corner-stone of a huntsman's library”); Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, pp. 40-41

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