LONGDOGS BY DAY. By E.G. Walsh.

1990 1st edition. Large 8vo (175 x 251mm). Ppxviii,94,128[unnumbered plates]. B/w photographs. Dark olive boards, silver-gilt titles to spine.

This book was published twelve years after the author's noted Lurchers and Longdogs. "Much has happended in the lurcher world since then, and this new book ...is a fully illustrated record of these eventful years." The first half of the book is text, the second half consists of a section of b/w photographs of dogs, personalities and coursing in the field. Chapters include; Part I, longdogs at play: - lurcher shows 1971-1988, includes, Lambourn, Whaddon Chase, Lowther, Badby, Tidworth, S. and W. Wilts, Denholm, Holkham, Hampshire Longdogs, Cottesmore, Heythrop, Whalton, Newmarket, Westbury, Fontwell Park, Buccleuch, Newton Abbott, Petworth, Sussex Longdogs, Glynclydach, Llandeilo, Claro, and others; running a lurcher show, organisation, advertising, size of rings, entries, trouble, dog stealing, classes, championships, ring stewarding, showing a dog, ethics, lunches and loos; judging lurchers, experience, confidence, methods, movement and make and shape, puppies, veterans, groups, problems and queries; other activities, racing, speed jumping, lure chasing, high jumping, 'show jumping', obstacle racing, obedience tests. Part II, longdogs at work: - coursing, the quarry, the rules; public coursing; private coursing, organised meetings, unorganised meetings, the bobbery pack, badger, roe, muntjac, fox and hare, obedience.