Thomas Goodlake — The Courser&Apos;S Manual or Stud-Book

Liverpool, Harris and Co for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1828 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Thomas Godlake's detailed greyhound stud-book. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of the author, and with a small number of greyhound vignettes.A scarce and highly informative first edition, providing information on hundreds of greyhounds and their pedigrees, completed by the author as he thought 'it might be useful to lovers of the leash&apos.Featuring also a history of coursing, a guide to coursing clubs, and further general remarks on greyhound racing. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. Significant discolouration and losses to boards, with bumping to spine head and tail and losses to the cloth in these regions. Front joint starting with board tender. Internally, firmly bound. Frontispiece detached to tail. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd spot. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .