Description

Beautifully bound and printed, and published a half century ago by the Blue Ridge Press (Virginia), the books in this limited inventory are still brand new, in their original glassine dust jackets and slip-case. The principal author, Alexander Henry Higginson, was an 1898 graduate of Harvard, one of the protagonists in the famous English-American Foxhound Match of 1905, Master of Foxhounds both here and in England, and a founder and first president of the Masters of Foxhounds Association of America in 1907. Higginson offers short biographical sketches of sporting authors, starting with the fourteenth century Edward, Second Duke of York and Tuberville and Markham of the sixteenth century. He concludes almost 400 pages later with biographies of his early twentieth century contemporaries such as J. Blan van Urk, M. O'Malley Knott, and Captain V.S. Littauer. The second part of the book, compiled by Sydney R. Smith, is the most complete bibliography of foxhunting books published to that time.