THE SPORT OF OUR ANCESTORS, de Broke & Armour
THE SPORT OF OUR ANCESTORS: BEING A COLLECTION OF PROSE AND VERSE SETTING FORTHE THE SPORT OF FOX-HUNTING AS THEY KNEW IT
Edited and selected with an introduction and appreciations by Lord Willoughby de Broke. Illustrated by G.D. Armour.
Published by Constable and Co. London. 1925
Second Impression 1925
Hardcover, First edition 1921 - this copy 1925 reprint
193 x 259mm. 280 pages
Excellent tipped in colour plates of paintings by G.D. Armour.
Gilt titles to red cloth. Cloth slightly used, spine faded, lacks dust-wrapper.
This is a fantastic anthology of writing on fox hunting, with great colour plates of paintings by G.D. Armour. Authors excerpted or discussed include R.S. Surtees, Mr. Egerton Warburton, Major Whyte Melville, Mr. Bromley-Davenport, Beckford, 'Nimrod', Anthony Trollope.