The Analysis of the Hunting Field; being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters that Compose One. The Whole forming a Souvenir of the Season, 1845-46. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken.

Publication details: London: Rudolph Ackermann,1846

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The Foyle/Beeleigh Abbey copy, preserving the original red cloth with fox motif. One of Surtees' classic works about fox hunting, with coloured plates by Henry Alken, including the pictorial title page.

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1846 pp. vi, 326, [4], 8vo; contemporary full tan calf, boards with double gilt fillet, spine ornately gilt in compartments with five raised bands, label, top edge gilt; neatly rebacked, preserving the original red decorated cloth bound in; bookplate at front pastedown of Oliver Belmont and at end of Lewis Fox Blumberg, Foyle book label on front free endpaper; recent slipcase.

Bibliography: Tooley 470; Schwerdt II, p. 232-33; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 359.

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