THE FIELD (or Country Gentleman’s Newspaper) trotted smartly off the printing presses for the first time in 1853 and became the indigenous organ of enthusiastic sporting households. Our first correspondent to the Letters page (a prospectus of the publication had been sent to those likely to take the paper) summed up the ‘value proposition’ rather neatly.
‘No native of any part of the globe will go so far, or endure so many will supply the place; and when they are to be found I trust that the instruction your paper will contain will be sufficient to recommend it.’
