Hardcover. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. With both 1846 and 1847 prefaces. 4to. With numerous illustrations by Henry Alken. Hand-coloured frontispiece. 6 other coloured plates, and 43 woodcuts with a half-title. Full contemporary red morocco decorative gilt spine with raised bands, all edges gilt exquisitely bound by R. Calvert. Gilt fillets to boards, and very ornate gilt inner dentelles, some slight toning of text block occasional faint traces of foxing plates bright and clean with no foxing or offsetting. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of "Robert Dudley Winthrop" on front pastedown. This work first appeared in 'Bells Life.' Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. 'The Meet.' "With Bright faces and merry hearts." 2. Title page. "Analysis of the Hunting Field" (consisting of eight small hunting vignette scenes). 3. 'Getting Away.' "Let's take the lead." 4. 'Full Cry.' "Let's keep the lead." 5. 'The Check.' "What the devil do you do you here, don't you know the great earth at Daventry is open? & be d---d yo you". 6. 'The Leap.' "That will shut out many and make the thing select." 7. 'Whoo-hoo-o-o-p.' "A chosen few alone the Death survey."