Hunting.- Gardiner (John Smallman) The Art and the Pleasures of Hare-Hunting, first edition, lacking half-title, title chipped at upper corner (repaired and laid down), browned, some staining, final leaf silked, stab-holes, bookplate and pencil notes of William Bates to front free endpaper, old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed, [Schwerdt I, p.197], R. Griffiths, 1750 § [Squire (Rev. Francis)] An Essay on Hunting. By a Country Squire, first edition, title with contemporary ink inscription identifying the author, later half calf, [Schwerdt I, p.164], J.Roberts, 1733 § § [Savile (Albany)] Thirty-Six Hints to Sportsmen, 18pp., first edition, title with ornamental border, stitched in original marbled wrappers, very slightly rubbed, [Schwerdt II p.148], Okehampton, Simmons, [c.1823, water-marked 1822] § Beckford (Peter) Thoughts on Hunting, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title with wood-engraved border, folding engraved plate of dog kennel, advertisement leaf at end, title browned, attractive contemporary russia stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, [c.1820]; and 6 others on hunting, v.s. (10)

⁂ The first is "a classic on hare hunting" (Schwerdt). The third is a scarce pamphlet by a famous Master of Foxhounds and MP; Library Hub lists only 2 copies (BL & Oxford), WorldCat adds 3 in America. At the time of the Schwerdt catalogue there was no copy in the British Library.