Hunting Vindicated from Cruelty, In a letter to The Monthly Reviewers

[London?]: Printed for the benefit, if any, of the Whippers-in, 1783. 30pp. With a half-title. Not in ESTC. [Bound after:] [BLANE, William (editor)]. Essays on hunting. Containing a philosophical enquiry into the Nature and Properties of the Scent; Observations on the different Kinds of Hounds, with the Manner of training them... Southampton. Printed and sold by T. Baker, [1781] xxvii, [1], 135pp, [3]. With a final leaf of errata. ESTC T71428. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, later expertly rebacked, preserving contemporary spine panel. Rubbed and a trifle bumped. Recent bookplate of James Fagan Scharnberg to FEP, scattered foxing. A remarkably rare survival of the second edition, printed in the year after the first, of an anonymous, impassioned, polemical pamphlet defending the practice of hunting following an article within the Monthly Review for September 1781, that had labelled all those who partook in in the sport as 'barbarians'. This remarkably rare work is bound here with the first edition of a collection of text on hunting, edited by landowner William Blane (1750- 1835), extracted from An essay on hunting. By a country squire (London, 1733), with additional essays by John Smallman Gardiner reprinted from The art and the pleasures of hare-hunting (London, 1750). James Fagan Scharnberg (1938-2019), Master of Basset Hounds for Skycastle French Hounds, Pennsylvania (the only pack in the U.S. composed of French roughcoated bassets) who amassed one of the finest private hunting libraries in America. He authored a number of books and articles on hunting, notably editing a volume of the collected fox hunting articles of Sir Newton Rycroft. OCLC records copies of the first mentioned work at a single location (BL). ESTC records copies of the second mentioned work at four locations in the British Isles (BL, NLS, Oxford, and Royal Veterinary College); and a further six in North America (Kansas, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Transylvania, and Williams College). . Second edition. 8vo.