Beckford, Peter.

THOUGHTS ON HUNTING IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO A FRIEND.

Printed by E. Easton, sold by P. Elmsly, in the Strand [and others], Sarum (i.e., Salisbury, England): 1781. First edition. Small 4to. (10), [1]-334 pp. Engraved frontispiece and two plates; with the half-title. Ink owner's inscription on the front pastedown: "Lewis D.G. Tregonwell, Cranborne Lodge"; Cranborne lies in Dorsetshire, near Cranborne Chase, a former royal forest and game preserve, near both Beckford family lands and Salisbury, where this book was printed. Gee: "The corner-stone of a huntsman's library." Podeschi 64. Contemporary or slightly later half-leather and boards of French or Stormont marbled paper, flat panelled spine tooled with gilt rolls and fleurons, leather spine label; dry and rubbed with front board detached, rear joint cracked, and corners bumped, but a copy stil attractive inside and retaining its original binding. Housed in a custom clamshell box of brown quarter-morocco and marbled boards.

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