Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, John Everett Millais and William Powell Frith. Hunting quarters at Market Harborough with a cast of men who talk about horses better than they ride them, followed by a second tale set behind a bar. Whyte-Melville was a cavalry officer and the best writer on horsemanship in English; he was killed in the field, hunting, at fifty-seven. This edition binds 53 plates after painters including Edvard Munch, John Leech and Francis Grant, alongside 3 restored and coloured illustrations.