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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. Square folio (305 x 299mm). Pp252. Colour plates, b/w illustrations, many from old engravings. Quarter green leather over green cloth, gilt pheasant motif and titles to upper board, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt. Green cloth-bound slipcase. Fine in slipcase. Edition limited to 1100 numbered copies, this being copy 323. A compilation from a great many sporting writers well illustrated with old engravings and fine colour plates. "In these pages writers and artists, from the famous to the unknown, join together to present a portrait of the sport through the centuries, and I hope it will prove as fascinating to read as it has been to compile." (John Marchington). Edition limited to 1,100 numbered copies, the first 100 of which were bound in full leather. . …