Excerpt from Illustrated Sporting Books: A Descriptive Survey of a Collection of English Illustrated Works of a Sporting and Racy Character; With an Appendix of Prints Relating to Sports of the Field<br><br>In the first place it will be observed that, with very few exceptions, only English illustrated books are dealt with. The vast majority of sporting books contain illustrations or at least a frontispiece. Those which do not are generally very old, but even the majority of these have been reprinted with illustrations, and consequently come within the scope of the work and are noticed accordingly.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.