Country Life Illustrated Vol.1. No.1 January 8th, 1897

The complete first issue of Country Life, with outer advertising covers. Thus 6pp of advertising, including property and horses, before journal proper begins with a portrait of the Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire. Much thereafter on horseracing and hunting, dogs, agricultural matters, and the first of the magazine's country house portraits, Baddesley Clinton, near Warwick. Golf, football and a brief item on Cape Town zoo follow. No girls in pearls, though the Princess of Wales is featured with her Borzoi hound Alix. Excellent period advertising. Outer covers a little toned and lightly worn but in general all in VG order. Folio. 30pp + 10pp advertising.