BELVOIR HUNT -- Journal of the Operations of the Belvoir Fox Hounds from August 10 1801 [... to April 9, 1828]. London: July 1802-[no date].
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BELVOIR HUNT -- Journal of the Operations of the Belvoir Fox Hounds from August 10 1801 [... to April 9, 1828]. London: July 1802-[no date].

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BELVOIR HUNT -- Journal of the Operations of the Belvoir Fox Hounds from August 10 1801 [... to April 9, 1828]. London: July 1802-[no date].

24 (of 28?) volumes only, 4° (237 x 175mm). Half-titles. Various contemporary calf bindings (vol. for 1805-6 in a later binding, vol. for 1817-18 rebacked, other volumes scuffed). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate in 18 volumes; his sale, 22 May 1939, lot 173).

A SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE SET (mostly from the Schwerdt collection) of this very rare early record of one of the greatest British hunts. Lacking the volumes for 1799-1800, 1800-1801, 1826-1827 and 1828-1829. The volume for 1819-1820 was never published according to Schwerdt. Schwerdt I, p.59 and cf. IV, p.11. (24)
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