TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The footnote in Paragraph #35 on page 69 (the only one in the book)was moved to follow the paragraph from which it is referenced.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have beencorrected after careful comparison with other occurrences withinthe text and consultation of external sources.
The cover image was created by the transcriberand is placed in the public domain.
More detail can be found at the end of the book.
FORES’S SPORTING ENGRAVINGS,
ACCURATELY COLOURED FROM THE ORIGINAL PICTURES.
FORES’S NATIONAL SPORTS.
FOX HUNTING.
From the Original Pictures by MR. J. F. HERRING, Sen.
A SERIES OF FOUR ADMIRABLY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.
Price to Subscribers, £10 10s.—Size, with margin for Framing, 45 inches long by 26 high.
The Set comprises—
Plate I.—THE MEET.
“Delightful scene!
Where all around is gay—men, horses, dogs,
And in each smiling countenance appears
Fresh blooming health and universal joy.”
“Then to the copse,
Thick with entangling grass or prickly furze,
With silence lead thy many-coloured hounds
In all their beauty’s pride.”—Somervile.
Plate II.—THE FIND.
“Hark! what loud shouts
Re-echo thro’the groves: he breaks away;
Shrill horns proclaim his flight; each straggling hound
Strains o’er the lawn to reach the distant pack.
’Tis triumph all and joy.”
“Hark! on the drag I hear
Their doubtful notes preluding to a cry;
More nobly full, and swell’d with every mouth.”
—Somervile.
Plate III.—THE RUN.
“The riders bend
O’er their arch’d necks; with steady hands, by turns
Indulge their speed, or moderate their rage.”
“Happy the man who with unrivall’d speed
Can pass his fellows, and with pleasure view
The struggling pack.”—Somervile.
Plate IV.—THE KILL.
“The pack inquisitive, with clamour loud,
Drag out their trembling prize; and on his blood
With greedy transport feast.”
“A chosen few
Alone the sport enjoy, nor droop beneath
Their pleasing toils.”—Somervile.
Corresponding in Size and Style with FORES’S NATIONAL SPORTS—
Plate I.—The START FOR THE DERBY.
Plate II.—STEEPLE-CHASE CRACKS.
Price £3 3s. 0d. each.
Coloured in close imitation of the Original P