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Extra-illustrated and with Autograph Letters by Edwards and others tipped in. Blue cloth gt, 274pp., 4to, colour plates etc, damage to spine (partly detached), some damp stains on covers, hinge strains. INSCRIBED by Lionel Edwrds fr. ep To Brig.Gen. Cowie | With the | author's | Compliments and thanks | 1927, perhaps the Brigadier-General A.H. Cowi R.E. recorded as acting as Master of the Aldershot Command Foot Beagles, who certainly extra-illustrated this volume.

Strip from an endpaper(?), 12.5 x 1.5, laid down on sl. larger paper, aged but clear. A scarce autograph! See Image. Note: Of his best-known poems, especially The Chace (1735). That poem, written in Miltonic blank verse, traces the history of hunting up to the Norman Conquest of England (1066) and gives incidental information on kennel design, hare hunting, stag hunting, otter hunting, the breeding and training of dogs, and dog diseases… [Britannica]