Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages … with an Introduction by the Earl of Lonsdale

  • SIGNED Hand colored frontispiece portrait of the author by Gordon Ross, in addition to numerous other illustrations in color and black
  • New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928
By Thomas, Joseph B.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. Deluxe Edition. No. 7 of 50 copies printed on Van Gelder Paper, with signed frontispiece portrait. Hand colored frontispiece portrait of the author by Gordon Ross, in addition to numerous other illustrations in color and black and white. xviii, 272 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original full red morocco, gilt decorations of stylized running hounds and foilage on upper and lower covers, title on upper cover and panelled spine, t.e.g. Bookplate. Preserved in red morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Ross, Gordon. Deluxe Edition. No. 7 of 50 copies printed on Van Gelder Paper, with signed frontispiece portrait. Hand colored frontispiece portrait of the author by Gordon Ross, in addition to numerous other illustrations in color and black and white. xviii, 272 pp. 1 vols. 4to. An outstanding work, "the first of the big, beautiful Derrydale Deluxes. It was a model for many of the ones that followed" (Frazier). Siegel 15; Frazier T-2-D; Biscotti p. 432; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, pp. 370-71

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