2i6 CENTURY OF ENGLISH FOX-HUNTING 



Another edition, 1808. 4to. Plates as before. 



Another edition, 1809. 8vo. 29 coloured plates by 

 Rowlandson. 



Another edition, 181 2. Folio. 29 coloured plates. 



Another edition, n. d. 8vo. Ackermann. 29 coloured 

 plates by Rowlandson and others. 



An edition of 1822, in 2 vols., roy. 4to, is of no import- 

 ance, and of but little value. The plates are reduced 

 copies. 



Further information in regard to this eccentric 

 doctor can be found in Geoffrey Gambado, by a 

 Humourist Physician, a rare book, though only pub- 

 lished in 1865. 



Peter Beckford died on the i8th of February, 

 181 1, and v^^as buried at Stapleton, in Dorset. Over 

 his grave are these lines : — 



" We die and are forgotten ; 'tis Heaven's decree : 

 Thus the fate of others will be the fate of me." 



But Peter Beckford's name will never be forgotten, 

 for he was the first English writer to describe 

 minutely and accurately the system of fox-hunting, 

 and the work quoted below is still regarded as an 

 authority. He was also an eminent scholar, and it 

 was said of him by Sir Egerton Brydges that " he 

 would bag a fox in Greek, find a hare in Latin, 

 inspect his kennels in Italian, and direct the economy 

 of his stables in exquisite French." His son was 



