Saddle Room Songs and Hunting Ballads

This vintage book contains a collection of traditional hunting songs and ballads from the nineteenth century. Contents include: "Hunting Song", "The Squire's Daughter", "the Black Frost has Broken at Last", "The Empty Loose Box", "To an Old Saddle About to be Sold", "Greatfox Lodge", "Over Pasture, Plough and Fell", "The Five Furlong Race", "Cavalier", "The Recollections of a London Cab Horse", and "A Toast". This book is highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of field sports. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the use of horses in sport.