{"product_id":"2026200014787-secondhand-hunting-sketches","title":"Hunting Sketches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew Victorian writers possessed Anthony Trollope's gift for dissecting the social rituals of English country life with such sharp-eyed affection, and Hunting Sketches stands as a masterclass in this art. Originally published as a series of essays in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1865, this collection presents a vivid gallery of fox-hunting characters — from the master of hounds to the lady who hunts and the sporting parson — capturing the personalities, pretensions, and passions that animated the great English hunting field. Trollope chronicles each type with a journalist's precision and a novelist's warmth, rendering the ritual of the hunt not merely as sport but as a complete social theatre.\n\nIllustrated with an introduction by the celebrated equestrian artist Lionel Edwards, this edition enriches Trollope's prose portraits with a visual grandeur befitting the subject. The collection illuminates the codes of honour, class, and camaraderie that governed Victorian rural society, offering a window into a world of muddy boots and morning mists that is both historically fascinating and compulsively readable. Trollope's style is characteristically genial yet incisive — he admires his subjects even as he gently satirises them — leaving the reader to wonder whether the hunting field is truly a sport or simply England's most elaborate stage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203162611931,"sku":"2026200014787-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f62ef8ea-a406-41c7-8336-2c606eef301c.png?v=1788144809","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014787-secondhand-hunting-sketches","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}