HUNTSMEN OF A GOLDEN AGE: STEPHEN GOODALL 1757-1823. WILLIAM GOODALL 1817-1859. By Daphne Machin Goodall.

1956 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 221mm). Pp182. B/w photograph plate, b/w illustrations, introduction by Aubrey Noakes. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"'Like John Warde he never admitted his weight,' writes Miss Goodall, 'and was greatly annoyed when some wit referred to his weighing a quarter of a ton.' This was rather libellous, of course, because, in point of fact, he only weighed twenty stone! Moreover he was extremely active, never far from his hounds, and 'never gave his horse a sore back!' In this volume Miss Goodall has given us a fascinating account of her ancestors, Stephen Goodall and William Goodall, his eldest grandson, based on unpublished correspondence and memoranda of theirs which has come down in the family. She has also brought together much interesting information about them that lies scattered about in the files of old sporting magazines, and the writings of 'Nimrod', 'The Druid', and other such sporting authorities. ...We are thus able, by reading through the many letters in this volume, to build up a vivid picture of the fox-hunting scene as it appeared to two excellent huntsmen during that halcyon period..."