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Title(s):

The Donnington run.

Published/Created:
[London] : Kerwood and Cox, printers, John Street, Edgware Road, [between 1821 and 1824]
Physical Description:
8 pages : 23 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SK285 .D66 1790
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Caption title.
The printers Kerwood and Cox were active from 1821 to 1824. See: British Book Trade Index.
Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, vol. 1, page 147
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Schwerdt copy, with his armorial bookplate. Bound in red half morocco and red cloth. Also with the armorial bookplate of Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse.
"A rare poem describing a famous run of John Ward's (the Hungerford) Hounds. The meet was at Donnington, finding at Wellford. After a sharp burst to Spray, they killed near Astridge in the open. The participants in this run are named and reviewed by the author, who begins and ends his song by disparaging the Leicestershire heroes."--Schwerdt.
Subject Terms:
Backhouse, Jonathan Edmund, Sir -- Bookplate.
Fox hunting -- England.
Fox hunting -- Poetry.
Horse sports -- England.
Hunting.
Schwerdt, C. F. G. R. (Charles Francis George Richard), 1862-1939 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Poems.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
Kerwood and Cox, printer, publisher.
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