Recollections of the early days of the Vine Hunt and of its founder William John Chute ... Together with brief notices of the adjoining hunts. By a sexagenarian

Recollections of the early days of the Vine Hunt and of its founder William John Chute ... Together with brief notices of the adjoining hunts. By a sexagenarian

 James Edward Austen-Leigh; William John CHUTE

Spottiswoode & Co., 1865


Bound in publisher's cloth. 134 pages ; 21 cm.  In protective mylar cover. Chip missing from head of spine, some fray to spine cloth. Scattered spotting. Generally sound. Account of fox hunting in early 19th century England. An account of the social life of English gentry of that period, written by a nephew of Jane Austin, the eldest son of her brother James.  The Vine was a manorial estate in Sherborne St. John, Hampshire, near Austen's childhood home in Steventon. Podeschi 206.

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