Original publisher's wrapper, a title page, and 5 text pages for "Some Will and Some Won't; or, A Lesson on Hunting." (Primary Title)
Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
Printed in center of front cover: SOME WILL and SOME WON'T; / OR, / A Lesson on Hunting. / By BEN TALLY-HO, / AUTHOR OF "QUALIFIED HORSES AND UNQUALIFIED RIDERS;"--" SPORTING DISCOVERIES, OR THE MISERIES OF HUNTING, / SHOOTING, DRIVING, and CAMPAIGNING,"--" SOME DO AND SOME DO NOT;" &c. &c. / LONDON : / Published by S. and J. FULLER, at the Temple of Fancy, No. 34, Rathbone Place, Oxford Street; / And to be had of all Book and Printsellers in the United Kingdom. / Printed by J. Tyler, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "12" (faint, illegible); in center: "Price" (faint, illegible).
Printed on inside of front cover: DRAWING and SPORTING WORKS, / Publishing by S. and J. FULLER./ [ left column]: Works on Drawing. / RUDIMENTS OF DRAWING THE HUMAN FIGURE; taken from / Nature, and some of the finest specimens of the Antique, from Drawings / made by Henry Corbould, Esq. and engraved in the Chalk line by Mr. Charles Knight. This Work will be completed in Four Numbers, 7s. 6d. each. / Dedicated to the Marchioness of Stafford. / A TREATISE ON LANDSCAPE PAINTING AND EFFECT IN / WATER COLOURS, from the first Rudiments, to the finished Picture; with Examples in Outline, Effect, and Colouring, in a series of fifty-six Plates. By / David Cox, Member of the Society of Oil and Water Colour Painters, Spring / Gardens.--This Work is printed on large Wove Royal Paper, and is comprised in Three separate Parts of Four Numbers each. The First Part comprises / Outline and Chalk Drawing.--The Second, displays and treats upon Effect / in Indian Ink.--Colouring and Effect forms the subjects of the Third Part. / The two first Parts are published at 7s. 6d. each Number ; and the Colouring / and Effect at 10s. 6d. ; or half bound 5l. 10s. / PROGRESSIVE LESSONS IN LANDSCAPE, for Young Beginners -- / By David Cox. In Six Monthly Numbers, each Number containing Four Plates, price 4s. each Number ; or complete, in Boards, 1l. 4s. / THE YOUNG ARTIST'S COMPANION ; or, Drawing Book of Studies / and Landscape Embellishments; comprising a great variety of the most pic- / turesque Objects in the various compositions of Landscape Scenery ; arranged / as progressive Lessons. By DAVID COX.--This Work will be completed in / 16 Monthly Numbers ; Ten in imitation of Pencil and Chalk ; and Three in / Sepia, showing the effect of Light and Shade, at 2s. 6d. each.--The three last in Colours, at 5s. per Number. / A SERIES OF LARGE CHALK ENGRAVED HEADS, delineating / the various Passions, and the Anatomy of the Human Face. By H. Singleton, / Esq. and engraved in the Chalk manner by Mr. Charles Knight.--This Work / is printed on large folio super royal, in Six Numbers, each containing 4 Plates, / 7s. 6d. plain, and 15s. in colours ; or complete in Boards, 2l. 5s. and 4l. 10s. / A PRACTICAL LESSON ON FLOWER PAINTING.--By Edward / Pretty, Drawing-Master of Rugby School. Exemplified in a series of Twenty- / four Plates, containing Instructions in the Neutral Tint or Indian Ink. Half / bound, gilt, and lettered, price 2l. 12s. 6d. imperial 4to in colours. / SPORTING SKETCHES ; consisting of Subjects relating to the Sports of / the Field ; as Horses, Dogs, Live and Dead Game, Wild Fowl, Fox Hunting,/ Shooting, Coursing, Fishing, &c. &c. The whole illustrative of Landscape / Scenery. By Henry Alken.--In 8 Numbers, each containing six plates, 7s. 6d. / or 3l. in boards. / SKETCHES OF CATTLE ; consisting of Oxen, Bulls, Cows, Calves, / Sheep,Rams, Lambs, Deer, Fawns, Goats, Kids, Swine, Pigs, Horses, Mules, / Asses, Farm Dogs, Ducks, Geese, &c. &c.--The whole illustrative of Landscape / Scenery. By H. Alken. This Work will be completed in six Monthly Num- / bers, 6 Plates to a Number, price 7s. 6d. each. // [right column]: BEAUTIES AND DEFECTS IN THE FIGURE OF THE HORSE, / comparatively delineated in a Series of 18 coloured Engravings, from the Pencil / of Mr. H. Alken ; with References and useful Instructions to young Purchasers, / or to those who wish to pursue the Study of that noble and useful Animal. 18s. / SPORTING WORKS. / Two Prints of the EPSOM RACE COURSE, from Pictures by / H. Alken, 1818. The first, representing the Course near the Winning Post, / Mr. Thornhill's Chesnut Colt Sam, beating Lord Darlington's Grey, and Sir J. / Shelley's Prince Paul. With Portraits of the other Horses.--The Second repre- / sents the Two Mile Course, with Horses preparing to start. 21s. each, coloured. / THE DERBY STAKES, 1820. --A Print of Mr. Thornhill's chesnut colt / Sailor, beating Mr. Udney's Abjer, Lord G. H. Cavendish's colt by Middle- / thorp, and the Duke of Grafton's brown colt Pindarrie. Drawn and engraved / by H. Alken. 7s 6d. coloured. / Qualified Horses with Unqualified Riders, or, The Reverse of Sporting / Phrases ; in a Series of coloured Plates. By Ben Tally-ho. 21s. imperial / 4to in colours. / Sporting Discoveries, or, The Miseries of Shooting. Ditto, 21s. / Sporting Discoveries, or, The Miseries of Driving. Ditto, 21s. / Sporting Discoveries, or, The Miseries of Hunting. Ditto, 21s. / Sporting Discoveries, or, The Miseries of Campaigning. Ditto, 21s. / Doing the Thing, and The Thing done. Ditto, 21s. / How to Qualify for a Meltonian ; addressed to all would-be Meltonians ; / in a series of coloured Engravings, taking the different points of the Hunt. By / ditto. 21s. / Some do, and some do not. It is all a notion. Ditto. 21s. / Specimens of Horsemanship ; Views in which the different Classes of / Riders are pourtrayed. In coloured plates. 7s. 6d. / Specimens of Shooting. Ditto, by R. B. Franklyn, Esq. 21s. / Indispensible Accomplishments, or, Hunting in Leicestershire. A series of / coloured plates, by ditto. 21s. / Easter Monday ; two plates of Stag Hunting. Views near Epping and / Windsor ; Men of determined courage riding hard up to the Hounds ; and / Gentlemen Sportsmen endeavouring to lead the Field. 18 inches by 14.-- / Price 15s. the pair, in colours. / Going to Epsom Races ; a new and ingenious article of Amusement, / consisting of many hundreds of moving Figures, and giving, at one view, the / complete Character, Costume, Equipage, Horsemanship, and principal Amuse- / ment of the English People. Price 15s. coloured ; 10s. 6d. plain, in cases. / A Start for the Derby, or the Effects of a Windy Day. View on the Epsom / Race Course 1820. 5s. in colours. / Panorama of the Progress of Human Life, fashionably displayed, illustrating / Shakespeare's " Ages," and exhibiting the manners, costume, character, and / field sports of the English People ; the whole illustrative of modern character, in a series of many hundred moving figures. By the Author of " Going to / Epsom Races"--Fifteen feet long, 21s. coloured, in cases. / Panorama of the Bay of Napes ; displaying, at one view, every place of no- / toriety in that delightful spot.--7 feet 6 inches long, in colours, 15s. in cases, / and 10s. 6d. in sheets. Printed on inside of back cover: SOME DO and SOME DON'T; / It is all a Notion. / By BEN TALLY-HO, / AUTHOR OF "QUALIFIED HORSES AND UNQUALIFIED RIDERS;"--" SPORTING DISCOVERIES, OR THE MISERIES OF HUNTING, / SHOOTING, DRIVING, and CAMPAIGNING,"--" SOME WILL AND SOME WILL NOT;" &c. &c. / LONDON : / Published by S. and J. FULLER, at the Temple of Fancy, No. 34, Rathbone Place, Oxford Street ; / And to be had of all Book and Printsellers in the United Kingdom. / Printed by J. Tyler, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "hus/-/-". Inscribed in graphite on verso of back cover, upper left: "80" (?); upper right: "12/22" and "81.B". Printed in center of title page: Some will, and some will not; / OR, A Lesson on Hunting. / THE DANGER IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE FUN / THAT A SPORTSMAN ENJOYS FROM AN EXCELLENT RUN : / A GREAT NUMBER OF FALLS TO THE HONOUR MUST ADD, / AND A FEW BROKEN LIMBS PROVE A HIGH SPORTING LAD. / NOW LOOK O'ER THIS LESSON, IF HUNTING'S YOUR FORT, / BUT MIND, " THE GREATER THE DANGER,THE GREATER THE / SPORT." / Some that will, and some that will not, are always to be found in Fox-Hunting. Now if this con- / trariety of opinion should happen with the Man and Horse, which is not by any means uncommon, the / chance of sport will be great ; admitting the assertion of most Fox-Hunters to be true, that "the greater / the danger, the greater the sport." I have chosen seven very conspicuous situations out of about seventy, / which I seriously recommend as a Lesson to all Sportsmen, young and old. A good thing is never learnt / too late. / At the same time I will endeavour to show the different appearances in respect to grace of seat, etc. etc / you are likely to make in the field, by following my advice. / BEN TALLY-HO. Printed in center of first text page: HOW TO APPEAR AT COVER. / THIS is of more real consequence than the generality of young sportsmen are aware of. The first im- / pression goes a great way. Some few singularities are actually necessary ; and the more those singu- / larities tend to use, the better. A smart, cocking, sound nag, the colour striking ; and be particular / to have plenty of reins, nose-band, martingale, curb bit, running and twisted snaffle, &c. &c. ; also a / short jacket and mud-boots ; but above all, a large shawl neckerchief, the many uses of which ex- / ceed description, therefore I must content myself, and you at the same time, with pointing out a few / of its most prominent qualities. In the first place, it is a great defence against cold, its appearance is / excessively elegant, and as a preventative against a broken neck it has no parallel. Its other properties / I shall perhaps mention hereafter. One thing, however, of great consequence, I had nearly forgotten, / which is, that your hunter and hackney should never be of the same colour ; for it is possible that three / fourths of the sportsmen may never be able to ascertain whether you have a second horse in the field, / or not, unless you show them in the first instance. Printed on verso of first text page: GOING AT A FENCE. / AT a stiff fence you will find your account in being mounted on a large horse, and the larger in the / hind quarters, the better ; as most horses, especially those that are not large, are very likely to turn tail / over head in the endeavour to get over a high fence. Now by your horse having weight, particularly / behind, he may, by leaping only one third the height of the fence, succeed in gaining a passage.--- / For this object, it is of very little consequence what sort of fore-legs he may possess, for however good / they may be, it is a great chance but you spoil them the first or second time ; and as a matter of / economy, it would be better to purchase a charger ready done up by Nature or accident. This mode / of getting through a country is very easy, provided there are not many ditches ; at the same time you / render yourself extremely useful to the field, in acting as a pioneer to those sportsmen who perhaps / have neither power nor inclination to play at topping fences, which it must be acknowledged is always / dangerous.---I must not omit to mention that this method of rushing at a fence requires that your / horse should be well pulled up at the pitch ; and as stirrup-irons and leathers are not always to be / depended upon, the best plan is (as I have described in the Plate) to put the left knee across the horse's / neck, then nothing but the reins giving way can prevent your coming into the next field with your horse. / Should you chance to get a view of the lag hounds, and as it is well known that they are apt to choose / for a passage the weakest and lowest part of the fence, charge at it by all means, let the consequencebe / what it may.
Printed on front of second text page: HOW TO STOP YOUR HORSE. / SHOULD your horse at any time prove too much for you, (which is no more nor less than his having / a strong determination to go where and how he pleases,) I must allow it to be a fault that it is very / difficult to prevent ; and I think it the best plan, in this Lesson, to lay down some rule, amidst so / many, by which you may surmount this difficulty with the least danger to yourself. My plan may / appear extravagant, but it is, I am convinced, the only one by which an almost certain danger can be / avoided. / There have been many methods proposed. I have heard that the great GAMBADO advised riding / against a carriage. There may be such things, butI really do not recollect ever having seen Carriage- / hunting : and the old plan of riding against a tree, must, in my opinion, be considered dangerous ; / and carts, ploughs, and waggons equally so. In fact, there is but one, and that ought only to be / used as a last resource, which is, to ride against some brother sportsman ; self-preservation being a / great law in Nature. Do this, and it is ten chances to one but you all stop together.
Printed on verso of second text page: GOING AT A GRAVEL-PIT OR A RIVER. / NOW this thing is by no means difficult, if you follow my advice ; but, by-the-bye, is extremely / dangerous, should you chance to be mounted on a horse that is (however so little) too much for you, / and at the same time have the good fortune to view a gravel-pit in your unavoidable track. Immediately / set to work, and pull the right or left rein (I do not think it matters which) with all your might : this is / not only the best, but the only plan you should pursue ; for should the horse be permitted to see, / when almost at the brink of danger, the chances against himself, it is five thousand pounds to a penny / but he stops short, and the consequence will be, (however excellent your horsemanship,) that he puts / you in alone. In the fall some bones must be broke, and better those of the horse than yourself. / At a river, the same method should be adopted, for in nine cases out of ten the horse will prove the / best swimmer. Of two evils, choose the least.
Printed on the front of the third text page: GOING AT A GATE. / SHOULD you have made up your mind to signalise yourself by riding at a gate, be careful to choose / a horse large, strong, and heavy ; for however earnest your inclination be to go over, it is not always, / even with the best horse, that the wish is crowned with success, unless you are disposed to put up / with going over alone. Now I repeat, that for going at a gate, choose a large, strong, and heavy / horse, and be particular that his head is strong ; and if Roman-nosed, the better. With such quali- / fications, if you fail in going over, you have a chance of going through, which is generally admitted / to be the safest plan. If your horse, after one or two charges at a gate, refuse (which is quite possible) / to make another, you have only to pursue the same plan as at the gravel-pit, that is, bring his head / about to the right or left ; by which means you may alternately charge with the head or chest, and be / able to relieve either one or the other, as your judgment may point out.
Printed on verso of the third text page: GOING AT A STONE WALL. / THIS has always been a great annoyance to the generality of hunters, and I never knew, or even/ heard, of any method of avoiding the necessity of going over the top, (if you are inclined to pursue the sport,) until the latter part of the season of 1820, and which I communicate with pleasure to those / who may have to encounter a similar difficulty. I do not take all the credit to myself, but must give / what portion of it is due to a restive horse which I rode at that period in Rutlandshire. As it was en- / tirely out of my power to make him face the wall, by an accidental charge with his hind-quarters we / succeeded in making a breach sufficient for a passage. / I was then told of a method which they sometimes resort to, of inducing horses to kick down the / walls ; but that must certainly occupy more time than the plan I have suggested. Besides, a horse is / not always in a kicking humour.
Printed on the front of the fourth text page: GOING HOME. / I HAVE heard that the officer's sash was originally intended, in case of wounds or death, to assist in / removing the subject from the field with ease and expedition ; and as we are all liable to accidents in / the field of sport as well as the field of battle, it is actually necessary that all sportsmen should be pro- / vided with something to answer the above-mentioned purpose, when occasion may require it. In this / respect, a shawl is infinitely preferable, both in comfort and appearance, to a hurdle. / The first application of shawls to this benevolent use belongs not to me ; but for the more convenient / method of carrying it in the field I have strong claims to originality. I knew a gentleman, (a very / bold rider,) who always rode with one under his saddle: but, alas! mistaken man, when an accident / did occur, the horse had not feeling enough to pay any respect to the situation of his rider, but fol- / lowed the hounds as if nothing had happened.---Hence the advantage of wearing it round the neck."
Inscribed in graphite on verso of the fourth text page: "82".
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