PORTRAIT OF A HUNT: THE HISTORY OF THE PUCKERIDGE AND NEWMARKET AND THURLOW COMBINED HUNTS. By Michael Brander.

1976 1st edition. 4to. Ppxvi,192. B/w photographs, colour, b/w illustrations, maps, brief bibliography. Maroon cloth.

"The development from their earliest beginnings of the Puckeridge and the Newmarket and Thurlow Hunts, amalgamated as the Puckeridge and Thurlow since 1970". Chapters include; the early beginnings; notable events of the eighteenth century; the first quarter of the nineteenth century; the period up to 1845; 1845 to 1875; 1875 to 1900; 1900 to 1920; 1920 to 1945; 1945 to 1975. An appendix gives extracts from the hunt diaries of the Newmarket and Thurlow, Puckeridge, and Puckeridge and Thurlow Hunts, rules of the Thurlow Hunt Club, list of masters.