1838 Deer HUNTING 1ed Scottish Art of Deerstalking Scrope Sport Atholl Scotland

1838 Deer HUNTING 1^ed Scottish Art of Deerstalking Scrope Sport Atholl Scotland

William Scrope was a 19^th-century English sportsman who is best-remembered for his writings on hunting, sports, and games. His best and most important work was ‘The Art of Deerstalking’, first published in 1838 – an instructional manual for deer hunting in Great Britain. In addition to containing descriptions of deer appearance, habits, and habitat, this work takes on a whole other character by including hunting songs and poems, stories of hunting accidents and adventures, as well as stunning full-page illustrated engravings of hunting scenes and big game in the Forest of Atholl, Scotland.

Item number: #25454

Price: $499

SCROPE, William

The art of deer-stalking; illustrated by a narrative of a few days’ sport in the forest of Atholl

London: John Murray, 1838. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xix, [1], 436
  • 11 illustrated plates, including frontispiece and vignette title page
• Provenance: Bookplate – Draycot House
  • Draycot House has been a holding of the Long (later Tylney-Long) Baronets of Westminster since it was built in the mid-15^th century for Robert Long, 1^st At the time of this book’s publication, the estate belonged to William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington (1788–1857), an Anglo-Irish nobleman notorious for his dissipated life of living, and nephew of the Duke of Wellington.
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~10in X 6.25in (25cm x 15.5cm)

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