HOUNDS OF BRITAIN: WITH NOTES ON THEIR QUARRY. By J. Ivester Lloyd.

1973 1st edition. 8vo (137 x 223mm). Pp135. B/w photographs. Gilt hound motif to red boards, spine titled in gilt.

"In an average day's hunting a hound may cover up to a hundred miles in all kinds of weather and over extermely rough country, and appear at the end as keen as when it started. Jack Ivester Lloyd here surveys the various breeds and types of hound which, in Britain, hunt almost entirely by scent." Chapters include: The hunt; the fox; Foxhunting; The foxhound; The modern foxhound; The Dumfriesshire Black and Tan; The Welsh hound; The Fell hound; The Cotley and College Valley; Ways of the hare; The harrier; The beagle; The basset; The bloodhound; British deer; The staghound; The otter; The otterhound; Summer months; Summing up.