To Whom the Goddess: Hunting and Riding for Women

First edition, later printing. 288pp, 12pp publisher’s ads; some black and white photographic plates and drawings by the author. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; illustrated endpapers. 8vo. Sun-faded spine; lightly rubbed corners and spine ends, cloth wearing. Some wear to boards. Top text block edge dusty, all edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Foxing throughout, intensity varies but plates not affected, but tanning. Internally neat and tight. Written to guide ladies on the hunting field and long regarded as a standard work on the topic, because of its in depth considerations it has become also a standard guide on the correctness of turnout and style for ladies in the saddle and for side-saddle riding. Drawing on tradition, history, literature and art as primary sources, it amounts to a compelling survey of the higher class woman as an equestrian and huntress from the middle ages to the early 20th century.