FAMOUS FOXHUNTERS. By Daphne Moore.

1978 1st edition. 4to (193 x 256mm). Ppxiv,209. B/w photographs, illustrations. Yellow-mottled green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Short biographies of well-known characters of the hunting field. Biographies include: Hugo Meynell; Thomas Assheton-Smith; John Peel; Parson Jack Russell; 'Squire' Osbaldeston; Lord Henry Bentinck; Sir Edward Curre; Mrs W. Hall ('The Miss'us'); Mr Isaac Bell ('Ikey' Bell); Major Maurice Barclay; Mr Percival Williams; Major C. Hilton-Green; Sir Alfred Goodson; Lt-Colonel W.H. Buckley; Mr C.N. de Courcy Parry ('Dalesman'); The 10th Duke of Beaufort; Sir John Buchanan-Jardine; Major W.W.B. Scott; Lt-Colonel Sir Peter Farquhar; Lt-Colonel R. Eames; Mr W.W. Brainard, Jr. ; Captain R.E. Wallace; Mr Thaddeus ('Thady') Ryan.