1930s BELLS OF THE CHASE Vintage Fox Hunting Book by Yoi Over - Foxhunting

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BELLS OF THE CHASE by YOI-OVER Author of "Hold Hard! Hounds Please" Vintage fox hunting book, not dated, but believed to be 1930s. Published by Hutchinson & Co, London. Hard back with dust jacket, 287 pages. The author was a huntsman and whipper in for 40 years in many well known packs and provides descriptions of the various types of foxhound, including chapters on:- 1. The Calling chimes 2. Their Inspiratino to Health 3. Bells that peal their own doom 4. The Old Southern Hound - Caninus Arcadius 5. The Dandy Hound 6. Amazon - Queenly bitch 7. Bitches v dog hounds 8. The Hound minus honours - the Gelded Hound 9. The Stocky Hound 10. The American Foxhound 11. The Peterboro Foxhound 12. Judging the young hound 13. A kennel lecture 14. The versatility of the foxhound 15. Hunting tumbles 16. Hardiness in hound 17. Horse racing 18. The Dukes and Earls of the land, the Barons and Knights of the Shire, and fox hunting 19. Amenities of country life, the hunt ball 20. The two foxes - Vulpinus Vulpees and the economic fox. The dust jacket is ragged around the edges, and there is age spotting in the book. Has an owners signature neatly written in the front. It is illustrated with black & white plates of which none are missing. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER FOXHUNTING BOOKS LISTED. I AM SELLING A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, PLEASE read more