Hounds and Hunting Through The Ages.

THOMAS, Joseph B.

Item Number: 116028

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928.

First edition, one of 750 copies of Thomas’s fundamental history of hunting throughout the ages. Quarto, original boards richly decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated, tissue-guarded hand-colored frontispiece from a painting by F. B. Foss. In fine condition.

Founded in 1927 by Princeton University graduate Eugene V. Connett III, The Derrydale Press published several series of outdoor books for North American audiences during the first half of the 20th century. It was the only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books. "[T]he first of the big, beautiful Derrydale Deluxes. [Hounds and Hunting Through The Ages] was a model for many of the ones that followed" (Frazier).