SIR JOHN AMORY'S STAGHOUNDS. By Richard Lethbridge.

2012 1st edition. Folio (210 x 300mm). Pp160. B/w photographs and illustrations. Black boards.

"When Sir John Amory's Staghounds were formed, Queen Victoria was still on the throne, and their glory days were in the long Edwardian 'summer' before the First World War, hunting country south of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. It is a world away in time. But newspapers of the day carried copious reports of hunting of the period, and Richard Lethbridge has returned to the sources and painstakingly transcribed and edited the runs. Immediately, the excitement of these days - most of which will have been forgotten in the succeeding century - is recaptured and many a hardened Amory stag will be hunted again through these pages." This book is divided into three main sections: Sir John Amory's Staghounds; Mark Amory's Collection; Captain Harry Amory's Staghounds. Exciting reading with some good contemporary photographs on large format pages. A valuable addition to sporting literature.