HUNTING ENGLAND: A SURVEY OF THE SPORT, AND OF ITS CHIEF GROUNDS. By Sir William Beach Thomas. Illustrated from old prints and pictures, and from modern photographs.

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 221mm). Ppvii,120. Colour plates, b/w photograph plates and illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Red cloth, green titles in ruled borders to upper board and spine. Slight stains and fading to cloth, foxing to end-papers preliminaries and edges. Pencil list to half-title but good copy, lacks dust-wrapper. William Beach Thomas attended Shrewsbury School from 1882. As a keen sportsman he was soon appointed huntsman to the Royal Shrewsbury School Hunt. Later, after several teaching jobs which he rather disliked, he became employed by the Daily Mail as a writer of countryside material. During World War I Thomas was sent by the newspaper to France as a War correspondent and it is this for which he became best known. Following the War he got back to writing about the English countryside, authoring and contributed to a great many books on the subject. Contents include: Part 1: The General Scene - The meet; The antiquity of fox-hunting; The face of England; Historic headquarters; The quarry; Where the deer survive; Part 2: The Chief Hunting-Grounds - The Border to York; Flamborough Head to The Wash; East Anglian hunts; The Shires to-day; About the Cotswolds; The Western Midlands. .

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HUNTING ENGLAND: A SURVEY OF THE SPORT, AND OF ITS CHIEF GROUNDS. By Sir William Beach Thomas. Illustrated from old prints and pictures, and from modern photographs.

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B.T. Batsford. London. 1936

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