HUNTING: A PORTRAIT. By Anne Holland.

# 2003 1st edition. 4to (223 x 277mm). Pp189. Colour photographs and paintings, b/w photographs and illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt.

# "Anne Holland chronicles the development of hunting, from ancient times to the modern day: she describes the fashion for staghunting after the Norman conquest; how Elizabeth I still enjoyed hunting well into her late seventies; and how the arrival of the railways opened up the whole country for participants." Also examines the literature and art of hunting "from Lionel Edwards to Somerville and Ross, George Stubbs to Siegfied Sassoon." Many good photographs of contemporary packs. Chapters include:- Rally-ho; From ancient times; The West Country; The South-East and Home Counties; The East; The North; Central Southern England; Wales and the Welsh Borders; Ireland; New Zealand; Australia; The United States; Beagling and mink hunting; Hunting art; Hunting literature; Tailpiece. The foreword is by Bob Champion.