Highly recommended or those with a practical interest in hunting and hunting dogs, "Some Sporting Dogs" is a profusely-illustrated handbook on dogs as used for sport, with chapters on selection and breeding, general management, types of sporting dogs, training, and much more. This volume will be of considerable utility to modern hunters and breeders, and it is not to be missed by collectors of vintage sporting literature. Contents include: "General Management of Sporting Dogs", "Flesh as Food for Sporting Dogs", "Trespass of Dogs", "The Foxhound", "The Otterhound", "The Bloodhound", "The Harrier", "The Greyhound", "The Basset Hound", "The Beagle", "The Setter", "The Labrador Retriever, "The Spaniels: The Clumber. The Field. The Cocker", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with the original artwork and text.

Hunting literature had its beginnings as early as the fourteenth century, when nobles hunted stag, bear, fox, and other game on horseback. As foxhunting grew in popularity, literary works that covered the sport flourished, as well. In Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography, M. L. Biscotti has compiled all books produced in Great Britain and the United States that pertain to, or mention, foxhunting with hounds. Arranged alphabetically by author, more than 2000 titles are included. Each entry features details such as place and year of publication, publisher, book size, page count, illustrations, and binding. Nearly every title is also annotated with a description of the book’s contents, and biographical sketches are provided for the most notable authors. Narratives, histories, illustrated works, verse, fiction, and even anti-hunting literature all have their place in this volume. Six Centuries of Foxhunting also features more than thirty images of book covers and foxhunting illustrations. With appendixes that contain author, title, and illustrator time lines, and separate author and title indexes, this comprehensive bibliography is a valuable resource for researchers, book dealers and collectors, and foxhunters.