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This book includes the essential facts of every piece of literature published on the subject of foxhunting that has survived to the year 2000. And it's a reference book that's readable, too. Antiquarian booksellers, scholars, readers, and writers of sporting literature will be indebted to Duke Biscotti for another century or more. -- Norman Fine, editor, FoxhuntingLife, and author of Foxhunting Adventures: Chasing the Story Six Centuries of Foxhunting is a tremendous accomplishment to synthesize the literature of foxhunting into a single reference work. With a direct, user-friendly approach, Duke Biscotti has crafted a must-have volume for anybody with an interest in the history of country sport. The scope of this work is impressive and the insightful annotations transcend traditional bibliography. This is a valuable overview of the history of foxhunting and its literature and is sure to find a place in book collections throughout the sporting community. -- John P. Connolly, George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Librarian, National Sporting Library & Museum

Biscotti's volume is destined to be a bible for antiquarian booksellers, scholars, collectors, and writers of sporting literature. But the book's appeal will be a great deal broader. Biscotti gives us so much related and fascinating information about the listed author, the subject, and the times that the volume invites browsing, as does a good encyclopedia.... [A] highly useful reference for all who write, read, collect, and study.... Biscotti's Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography should stand as a one-of-a-kind volume until, say fifty or a hundred years from now, when another obsessive/compulsive (as Biscotti calls himself) with a passion for sporting literature recognizes the need to bring this comprehensive, useful, and informative piece of sporting scholarship up to date once again. * Foxhunting Life * This book includes the essential facts of every piece of literature published on the subject of foxhunting that has survived to the year 2000. And it's a reference book that's readable, too. Antiquarian booksellers, scholars, readers, and writers of sporting literature will be indebted to Duke Biscotti for another century or more. -- Norman Fine, editor, FoxhuntingLife, and author of Foxhunting Adventures: Chasing the Story Six Centuries of Foxhunting is a tremendous accomplishment to synthesize the literature of foxhunting into a single reference work. With a direct, user-friendly approach, Duke Biscotti has crafted a must-have volume for anybody with an interest in the history of country sport. The scope of this work is impressive and the insightful annotations transcend traditional bibliography. This is a valuable overview of the history of foxhunting and its literature and is sure to find a place in book collections throughout the sporting community. -- John P. Connolly, George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Librarian, National Sporting Library & Museum

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M. L. Biscotti is a retired antiquarian bookseller with a passion for the literature of foxhunting. He is the author of The Borzoi Books for Sportsmen (1992), The American Sporting Book Series (1994), The Bibliography of American Sporting Books (1997) and Paul Brown: Master of Equine Art (2001).

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