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Cook, Colonel John

Observations on Fox Hunting

by William Nicol, for the Author, and sold by Rowe and Waller London 1826 First Edition and the Management of Hounds in the Kennel and the Field. Addressed to a Young Sportsman, about to undertake a Hunting Establishment. Lithograph frontispiece and two plates. 8vo. [259 x 165 x 27 mm]. xvi, 292 pp. Bound c.1920 by Root and son in half red goatskin, cloth sides, the spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third and dated at the foot, the others with tools of a fox mask, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt, the others uncut. Foxing to the plates, some spotting in the uncut margins, and a minor dampstain pp.253-256. A good copy in a handsome binding. Bookplate of Oliver Collett.

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