THE LIFE OF A FOX WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A HUNTSMAN. By Thomas Smith, Esq. A new edition with the author's illustrations and coloured plates by G.H. Jalland.

(1838/1843) 1896 new edition. Large 8vo (165 x 220mm). Ppxvi,304. Coloured plates by G.H. Jalland, b/w plates by the author. Publisher's half vellum, marbled boards, leather spine-label, top edge gilt, other edges rough-cut.

This edition was published as part of The Sportsman's Library series by Edward Arnold. Series editor Sir Herbert Maxwell. Written by Thomas Smith (1790-1878) of Hill Place, not to be confused with Thomas Assheton Smith of Tedworth". In laying Mr. Smith's work once more before the public, the Editor has made none but a very few verbal alterations in them. In a few instances long footnotes have been incorporated in the text, and the profuse use of italics, to which writers and printeres of sixty years ago were so prone, has been checked by the substitution of roman type, as being more agreeable to modern readers". (From the Editor's preface).