The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Hunting by Beaufort, the Earl of (and others)

(London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906). 8vo; original pictorial cloth; pp. xii + 391 (+ adverts.); line drawings in text. Ex-library copy with label on front pastedown and code on spine; some hand-stamps and codes inside; scattered moderate foxing. Good condition. "The animal chosen as an example of what a hound should be is the Badminton Potentate . . . As a contrast to him the picture of a bad hound is given, his defects being purposely emphasised in order that they may at once strike the observer. Such a nightmare of a hound is not to be discovered in any hunting field, but by a course of injudicious breeding he might conceivably be produced. From head to stern he is all that a hound should not be. His shapeless head is joined by a thick neck to a shockingly clumsy pair of shoulders, which have no liberty of action about them. His legs are weak and crooked; he has the reverse of those 'round cat feet' which Somerville properly desires. He is flat-sided and slack in the loins; his stern is badly put on in the wrong place, and there is a total lack of muscle in his lean and long-drawn thighs." .