This volume is considered by many to be the finest colored plate sporting book of the nineteenth century. The text and illustrations give an imaginary biography of a typical English Master of Hounds. Alken drew and etched the thirty-six plates…
This is the bookplate of Elkan Nathan Adler (1861-1946), an Anglo-Jewish author, lawyer, historian, and bibliophile. He is famous for being the first European to enter the Cairo Genizah and bringing more than 25,000 fragments back to England.…