The Sport of our Ancestors: A Collection of Prose and Verse Setting Forth the Sport of Fox-Hunting

London: Constable and Co. LTD. , 1921. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 10" by 7.5". G. D. Armour. A nicely leather-bound work celebrating fox-hunting through verse and prose, with numerous tipped-in plates, some of which are in colour. First Edition. Bound in half-crushed morocco on cloth boards.Illustrations include a frontispiece and nineteen tipped-in illustrated plates, two of which are in colour, by George Denholm Armour (1864-1949). Armour was a British painter and illustrator who contributed hundreds of illustrations to magazine publications. This is a collection of prose and verse dedicated to the sport of fox-hunting, one of the most popular field sports of the aristocratic classes in the twentieth century. Contents include 'An Apology to Mr. Surtees', 'Tar Wood' by Mr. Egerton Warburton, 'Holmby House' by Major Whyte Melville, 'Goarly's Revenge' by Anthony Trollope, and 'The Dream of an Old Meltonian' by Mr. Bromley-Davenport.Edited with an introduction by Lord Willoughby de Broke, also known as Richard Greville Verney (1869-1923). Verney was a british peer and conservative politician who wrote numerous works including 'Hunting the Fox' and 'The Passing Years'. With a prior owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper.Collated, complete. Bound in half-crushed morocco on cloth boards. Externally, with just a bit of light wear to the spine, particularly along the front joint, and a few marks. Offsetting to endpapers from leather binding. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout the text. Very Good