Sporting Pictures of England Britain in Pictures No 87

HARDBACK ?BRITAIN IN PICTURES SERIES, No 87.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1945* Publisher: William Collins* Binding and cover condition: Pictorial cover, mid yellow green paper and white covered boards. White title to spine with illustration showing foxes mask and hunting horn. Considerable age to spine and splits to lower half. Lower edges slightly rubbed. Head and tail worn. ACC* Jacket condition: No dust jacket.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, bright and sewn binding tight. No annotations or inscriptions. Very slight age to end papers. VG* Illustrations: 12 plates in colour, 21 illustrations in b/w* Pages: 46 pp. text. ii pp chronology of sporting artists at rear.* One of the ?Britain in Pictures? series. Guy Paget was an aristocrat and for a short while a member of parliament. He held a regular commission in the Scots Guards but served with the Northamptonshire Regiment in the Great War. As a member of the Landed Gentry he held a number of positions as Justice and later High Sheriff of Leicestershire. In the years between the wars he was adding to the notable collection of sporting pictures which he had inherited, became a considerable authority upon them, and wielded a busy and versatile pen. His published works included hunting reminiscences and biographies, county history, war books, and three historical novels about the Yorkist princes of the fifteenth century. Sadly he died in a hunting accident at the age of 65 in 1952. A nice text copy of the first edition in this collectable series but with spine wear and without dust jacket.*