HAREHUNTERS ALL: (LATE JELLYDOGS ALL). Edited by David Wathen.

.# 1951 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 220mm). Ppix,174. Colour frontispiece by Michael Lyne. B/w photographs, illustrations, maps on front and rear paste-downs. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Numbered and signed by the editor. Facsimile of author's letter laid in*.

.# "One hundred articles concerning beagles and other hare-hunting hounds which are followed on foot. Foreword by Sir John Buchan-Jardine, Bt., M.F.H. Frontispiece by Michael Lyne. Pen and ink drawings by Jean Walker and others. Cover illustration by Basil Blackshaw". The chapters each deal with a particular pack, arranged geographically. Chapters include: The southern packs; London counties packs; West Country and South Wales; East Anglia and the Midland counties; North Wales and the Welsh Border counties; Lancs and Yorks, The Man in Green; The Lake District, Durham and Northumberland; North of the Border; Irish packs; Service packs; Academies of learning; Beagling in the United States and the Vernon Somerset Beagles; Foot harriers; Concerning hare hunting*. This copy comes from the collection of Sydney R. Smith, sporting publisher of Canaan, New Jersey. The title-page is inscribed "With kindest regards, Very sincerely, Richard V.N. Gambrill". Richard Gambrill is the author of Part XII Beagling in the United States and the Vernon Somerset Beagles. Gambrill was a keen hunting man who rode to hounds in the UK as well as at home in New England. He was Master of the Vernon Somerset Beagles, and sometime President of the Association of Masters of Harriers and Beagles. Gambrill was the proprietor of the Vernon Manor Estate, Peapack, Somerset County, New Jersey. In addition, a facsimile of a letter from David Wathen is laid in, explaining something of the history of writing and publishing this book. A good association copy.