Complete and unabridged, with 49 full-page plates by Joseph Wright of Derby, Thomas Gainsborough and Jan Vermeer van Haarlem. Exmoor in the eighteenth century, a horse called Katerfelto, a highwayman and a stag hunt that runs through the middle of the book. Whyte-Melville wrote the best hunting scenes in English and this one has the finest of them. This edition binds 49 plates after painters including Stubbs, Munch and Gainsborough, with 11 illustrations restored and coloured.