Illustrated, Limited Edition (limited to 1000 copies). The original manuscript by an anonymous author was found among some old Church papers by the Rev. Whatley, Vicar of Aston-Ingham parish in the county of Gloucestershire. It was given by him to the late William Gordon Canning, Esq. about 1889 while the latter was Master of the Ledbury Hounds. Whereas the author of the poem is unknown, the end of the manuscript bore the words "Cheltenham, 1871". In 1914 Mr. Canning published The Fox's Prophecy in an edition of 250 copies, the proceeds derived from the sale being given to various War Charities. In 1930 another edition of several hundred copies was published by members of the family to which the Duke of Beaufort contributed a foreword. The proceeds were devoted to the Gloucester Royal Infirmary in memory of William Gordon Canning, who died in 1929. The various people mentioned in the poem existed in real life and were living at the time the poem was written, being connected with either the Berkeley or Cotswold Hunt, sic Mr. Cregoe Colmore was Master of the Cotswold, 1858-1871, Harry Airis was huntsman to the Berkeley, F. W. Fitzhardinge, Bart. being the M.F.H. and the "wrathful Earl". As the Duke of Beaufort states in his Foreword in the 1930 edition "many of the views offered by the old Berkeley fox have become curiously and prophetically true". Inscribed.