Fox-Hunting
"La Chasse a Courre" Crafty
$500
Crafty
[47] pp.
E. Plon, Nourrit
9 1/4" x 10 3/4"
VG
"La Chasse à Courre" by Crafty is a humorous book that deals with hunting with hounds, a traditional hunting practice where a group of people, accompanied by dogs, chase a wild animal through the countryside. Crafty, whose real name was Édouard Ferdinand Jean Baptiste Gatien de la Selle (1840-1906), was a French cartoonist and humorist known for his illustrations of hunting life. His book, published in 1888, offers an amused look at the customs and characters involved in this practice,