Artist's Scrapbook, containing appproximately 215 mounted pen and ink drawings, primarily of fox hunters, horses, hounds, foxes, and hunting scenes

by Fox Hunting, The Rev. H. L Bennet

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 vols. Folio. Sewn into original brown wrappers worn . Item #9675 The artist, from internal evidence, seems to be Rev. H.L. Bennet--clearly an ardent and well-connected sportsman, as most of his sketches are portraits and caricatures of well-known hunting men and women of the day, many of whom are identified. These include a portrait of Lord Jersey, who Nimrod called “perhaps the most elegant rider for hounds the world has ever

  • Binding: Wrappers

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