FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE: WITH MANY NOTED PACKS. A COMPANION VOLUME TO 'GOOD SPORT, SEEN WITH SOME FAMOUS PACKS'. By Cuthbert Bradley, 'Whipster' of The Field.

1912 1st edition. Large 4to (175 x 274mm). Ppx,262,ads. Colour and b/w illustrations by Cuthbert Bradley, introduction by Captain E. Pennell Elmhirst, ex-master of the Woodland Pytchley, and 'Brooksby' of The Field. Pictorial gilt red cloth wth blind stamped ruled border, gilt decorations and titles to spine.

Cuthbert Bradley was a sporting journalist who specialised in reporting on fox hunting. This is an anthology of some his newspaper and magazine articles, previously published in The Field, Land and Water, The Country Gentleman, Graphic, Daily Graphic, Vanity Fair, Sporting Pictorial, Crown, Grantham Journal, Peterborough Advertiser, Sportsman, Baily's Magazine, and, Fores Magazine. Chapters cover: Peterborough and the Fitzwilliam Hunt; A hunt in Durham with the Braes of Derwent; The Stainton Dale, when a trencher-fed pack and a one-horse hunt; Mr. Gerald Hardy and the Modernised Meynells; Atherstone hound notes, Sir William Cooke and the Southwolde, steeplechasing in Lord Harrington's country; The Cheshire under the Duke of Westminster's mastership; Sport with the Blankney Hounds, Sir Robert Filmer and Tom Isaac; Two good runs with Sir Gilbert Greenall and the Belvoir hounds; Mr. G. Smith-Bosanquet's Hertfordshire pack; The Quorn under Captain Frank Forester; Two fox-up-a-chimney hunts with the Belvoir, 1891 and 1910; The Cottesmore, Lord Lonsdale, and the beauties of Barleythorpe; a day with Mr. E.A.V. Stanley and the Woodland Pytchley; Some Yorkshire hunting notes - Lord Middleton's, the Holderness, the Bedale, the Sinnington, and the Hon. H. Vane's hounds; A hunt with Lord Annaly, Frank Freeman and the Pytchley hounds; The sires of the Belvoir kennel during Sir Gilbert Greenall's mastership, 1896-1912.