post and the paddock
By: by the Druid.
Contributors: W. & G. Foyle Ltd.; Richard Clay (Firm)
Edition: Revised and re-edited.
Series: "The Druid" sporting series -- no. 2
Published: 1878
Place of publication: London; Frederick Warne and Co
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Yellowback books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Post and paddock
Notes: "The Druid" was a pseudonym for Henry Hall Dixon.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

Date based on information in Topp, Chester. Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. IV, 1999.

T.p. is a cancel.

Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Includes "Preface." dated 1856 (p. [v]-vi)

Includes "Preface to the Second Edition." dated 1856 (p. [vii]-viii).

Includes "Preface to the Hunting Edition." dated 1857 (p. [ix]-x).

Issued as number 2 in "The Druid" Sporting Series.  Cf. Topp, Chester.

"Two Shillings"--Spine.

At head of cover title and on spine: ""The Druid" Sporting Series".

Topp, Chester.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. IV, p. 55.

MASS copy: Bound in glazed pastel pink paper-covered boards printed in red, blue and black.  Upper cover printed with titling and wood-engraved illustration of two hunting men on horseback and another fallen in water.  Illustration is unsigned.  Lower cover printed in black with publisher's advertisement.  Inside of upper and all sides of lower endpapers printed with publisher's advertisements.   With later bookseller's label: "W. & G. Foyle Ltd,  119-125, Charing Cross Rd,  London, W. C. 2.".  Spine is with the same design and lower cover is with the same advertisement as used on McLean Y 0027.