CHAPTER X 



THE MASTER OF HOUNDS IN HIS LIBRARY 



Sporting bibliographies— "Annals of Horsemanship" — 

 Beckford's " Thoughts on Hunting " — William Somerville 

 — " The Chase -' — Mr. Apperley's works — Mr. Surtees — 

 List of his best known books — Some sporting magazines 

 and serials — Encyclopedias— Juliana Berners — Geor- 

 gina Bowers — Other books : Authors unknown — Mr. 

 Delme Radcliffe — " Brooksby " — " Stonehenge " — 

 " Cecil "—Mr. Warburton— Lord Ribblesdale — Mr. Blew 

 — "Scrutator" — "Wanderer" — Mr. Finch Mason — 

 " Thormanby " — Whyte Melville 



Charles Lamb declared that his favourite recreation 

 was to be " in a nook with a book," and my experience 

 is that such is the favourite recreation of Masters of 

 Hounds after a long day in the open air. But unless 

 they are students of bibliography, they can have no 

 knowledge of the prices which they should pay for 

 their books. In " Illustrated Sporting Books " (pub- 

 lished by Upcott Gill), Mr. Slater has reduced sporting 

 bibliography to an exact science ; but, as his work 

 partakes of the nature of a catalogue, which deals with 

 books relating to all branches of sport, I have, with his 

 permission, made certain extracts which relate to fox- 

 hunting. I have purposely omitted many books, such 

 as the hunting portions of the Badminton Library and 



