THE HITCHCOCK EDITION OF SOMERVILLE AND ROSS. Seven volume set.

1927 1st edition thus. Seven volumes. 8vo (165 x 245mm). Ppxxvi,212; x,194; x,191; viii,195; xii,192; xiii,227; xiv,283. B/w photographs and illustrations. Green cloth gilt.

A complete seven volume set of The Sporting Works of Somerville and Ross. Privately printed by The Derrydale Press, New York, 1927 in an edition of 500 sets, this being set number 18. Volume one: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. Volume two: Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. Volume three: In Mr. Knox's Country. Volume four: Dan Russel the Fox: An Episode in the Life of Miss Rowan. Volume five: All on the Irish Shore. Volume six: Wheel-Tracks. Volume seven: Irish Memories. Volume one has an eleven-page foreword by Harry Worcester Smith. Loosely laid into volume one of this set is a letter to "Dick" from "Jack". The letter carries the address of the Somerville family home, Tally Ho House, Castletownshend, and is dated the 26th of August 1949. Edith Somerville died, at the same address, less than two months later. The author of the letter is presumably one of Edith's brothers. The letter talks about the health of Edith and her sister Hildegarde as well as an article about Somerville and Ross that was published in Leader Magazine, 20th of August, 1949. This article is also loosely laid into the book.