Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Editor
Frank Forester’s Sporting Scenes and Characters. Embracing “The Warwick Woodlands,” “My Shooting Box, ”.
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, [1881].
Price: $250.00
About the item
Fifth edition. Two frontispieces. 2 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Editor. Red cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Spines faded, extremities rubbed. Shaken, hinges cracked, front flyleaf of vol. I lacking. Presentation copy, inscribed by Will Wildwood (Fred Pond) on first blank. Phillips 173; Van Winkle p. 63; BAL 8177; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 181 (note).
Item #261339
Contains the excerpts from his celebrated work, "The Quorndon Hounds" and "The Deerstalkers". This edition includes a life of the author by “Will Wildwood” (Fred Pond), and much new material by Herbert, including the Vale of Warwick and the obituary of Tom Draw.
