Description

First edition, third printing and just a few months after the first. With 16 fine colourplates from paintings and 75 illustrations on black and white plates and with a map. 4to, in the publisher's original wheat buckram lettered on the upper cover and spine in brown and with decoration of man on horseback in black and blue at the spine foot. lv, 260pp., 4pp. ads. A very good and handsome copy, the text fine, the cloth very mildly mellowed by time but still quite attractive.

Edizione: a beautifully produced classic of several sporting genres. osbaldeston was a first-rate shot, a master of the hounds and horses, fox hunter, world-class cricketer, and famous for his racing abilities, in flat, steeplechase, endurance and carriage races. he was equally well known for his romantic escapades.