"British And American Sporting Authors" 1949 HIGGINSON, A. Henry
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Their Writings and Biographies. With a Bibliography by Sydney R. Smith. Foreword by Ernest Gee
HIGGINSON, A. Henry
[443] pp.
Blue Ridge Press
In publisher's slipcase
1949
11 1/4" x 9"
This book gives biographical essays describing the lives and work of the most significant sporting authors of the British Isles and North America. The essays are arranged chronologically beginning with Edward, Duke of York (The Master of Game) and George Turbervile. The bulk of entries concern the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and all but a handful of the then extant authors were born in the nineteenth century. Notables include William Somerville, Peter Beckford, Charles Apperley ("Nimrod"), R.S. Surtees, Thomas Smith, F.P. Delme Radcliffe, William Henry Herbert ("Frank Forester"), Lord North, E.OE. Somerville, et al.