| - Book Title: Old Sporting. Characters and occasions from sporting and road history
- Author: Hugh McCausland
- ISBN: MWB2244176
- Publisher: Batchworth Press
- Year Published: 1948
- Our Normal Price: £22.00 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- 10% Discounted Price: £19.80 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- Description: The Batchworth Press, 1948, first edition: black cloth hardcover approximately 5.5 x 9" tall: 172 pages including index: 16 reproductions of sporting prints including the frontispiece in colour. Synopsis: A miscellany of sporting stories recording outstanding events and characters. Contents as follows. Part One: A Sporting Portrait Gallery (Hunting Squires of Early Times. John Warde and Blue Ruin. Tregonwell Frampton of Newmarket. Thomas Thornton of Thornton Royal. Colonel Peter Walker of Longparish). Part Two: Horse and Highway. (Characters of The Road. St Martin's-Le-Grand and Its Mail Coaches. On The Road with Colonel Hawker. Road Matches and Rides. Newmarket Matches. The Selby Run. Lord Lonsdale against Time.) Part Three: Stable and Studio (Sporting Paintings and Prints of the Coaching Age. Mail Coach Halfpennies and John Palmer. Tom Oldacre and His Portraits. Surtees' Illustrators. Master Robert and the Black Horse.) Bibliography. Index. Condition: no dust jacket: endpapers darkened from age: overall clean firm and good
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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