A sketch of the life and eccentricities of the late Mr. Lumley Kettlewell, of the city of York: : who, with the manners of a gentleman delighting in the sports of the field- a comptency sufficient for their enjoyment- a practical knowledge of every requisite essential thereto- a constitution peculiarly adapted for the chase, &c.- possessed of blood horses- game dogs- and manor of his own- refused both to his live stock and to himself sustenance necessary to support animal existence, and to keep "live and soul together." /

Michael Laird, bookseller, description: Woodcut plate of a thoroughbred mare and foal facing p. [53] of the first sequence, engraved plates of Kettlewell’s stables and dwelling opposite pp. 20 and 23 in the second sequence, and two identical engraved portraits of Richard Thompson, “one of the Alder...

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