THE GREEN COLLARS: THE TARPORLEY HUNT CLUB AND CHESHIRE HUNTING HISTORY. By Gordon Fergusson.

1993 1st edition. Large 4to (208 x 293mm). Ppxx,491. Colour and b/w photographs, colour and b/w illustrations and paintings, end-paper maps.

Detailed and extensive history of fox hunting in Cheshire, more particularly the Tarporley Hunt, with some account of adjacent counties. Many good paintings and photographs, including many past masters and members, and local personalities. Includes several appendices giving lists of former members, staff and officers, an acount of boar hunting with the Duke of Westminster's French pack, The Hunting Songs of Rowland Egerton Warburton, and a section of poetry and verse collected and edited by the author.