A Sporting Tour Through Ireland, England, Wales, And France by Harry Worcester Smith Master of Foxhounds In Two Volumes

Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1925. V.1 [Xvi], 214 pp. V.2 [X], 215 pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt stamped titles and hunting motifs to spine and front cover. Top edges gilt; other edges uncut. Illustrated endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontis, numerous b&w photographs and figures throughout the text.

VG+ Clean, square, and firm. Bright pages. Free of markings. Slightest rubbing to V.1 spine ridge and gilt rules on spine. Endpapers edge toned. Bright dust jackets show mild wear at extremities, small chips to rear panels.

A sporting tour through Ireland, England, Wales and France, in the years 1912-1913; including a concise description of the packs of foxhounds, mode of hunting, types of horses and the crack riders. General observations on the history of the counties of Ireland, the castles and cabins: a view of the customs and manners of the Irish people; together with a story of fox hunting in England and France. And a chapter on the Welsh and Mr. Curre's hounds, concluding with a word picture in detail of the Grand national steeplechase of 1913.