Country Life - January 8, 1897

First issue of Country Life magazine - January 8th, 1897.

Very good condition, some slight wear.

Front page - full of adverts
Full page of property adverts
Full page advert - Fry's Chocolates
Half page of photos with descriptive text - Successful Horses now at Stud.
Full page advert - Eley's Sporting Ammuntion
Full page Photo - The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire (Title Page)
Article - Under National Hunt Rules
Article and photo - A Champion Hurdle Racer - Knight of Rhodes, by Bon Frere-Herbertine
Article and photo - A Likely Young Steeplechaser - Ruric, by Gallinule-Miss Bella
Article - Turf Notes
Article - Jockey's Winning Mounts - V (Totals for the season 1896) with small portrait photos of Weldon, Gough, K. Cannon, Fearis.
Article and photo - Racing in Australia (Flemington)
Article and photos - Racing in Australia (Flemington) - A Six Furlong Scurry
Article and photo - A Promising Novice - San Lucar, by Doubloon-Lucia
3 page article and photos - With the Devon and Somerset Staghounds - 1 (Hunting the Wild Stag)
Small article - The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire 
Article and photos - The Wild Cattle of Cadzow Forest
3 page article and photos - H.R.H. The Princess of Wales's Pet Dogs
Full page photo - The Princess and her Borzoi Hound Alix
Article and photos - Country Homes - Baddesley Clinton
Article - After Dinner Golf by Horace Hutchinson
Article - From the Football Field
Article and photo - Groote Schurr - Mr Cecil Rhodes's South African Zoological Collection at Capetown
Half page advert - Spratt's Patent Dog Cakes
Full page advert - Dewar's Perth Whisky
Many more small adverts
Full page advert - Thomas & Sons' (Hunting and Sporting Clothes)
Full page advert - Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes