HARE and HOUNDS: THE ALDENHAM HARRIERS. By Eric Edwards.

2002 1st edition. Large 8vo (171 x 256mm). Ppvi,240,ads. B/w photographs, sketch map. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Detailed history of the Aldenham Harriers who hunt the area bounded by Bedford, Welwyn, Watford and Tring, with Luton in the middle. "Organised and legal hunting for hare within thirty miles of London is a remarkable thing, and yet it has been going on for 124 years. This book tells the story of how it all came about: the people and places involved, the characters, the trials and the achievements of the followers of a pack of hounds kept in the same kennel in Hertfordshire for fifty years."