The Sportsman's Handbook To Practical Collecting Preserving And Artistic Setting Up Of Trophies And Specimens To Which Is Added A Synoptical Guide To The Hunting Ground Of The World
Author:
WARD Rowland
Year:
1880
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
the author
Summary:
VIII, 103 pages, xiipp sporting advs including Rowland Ward, 18pp blank memoranda pages 11 pages filled in with pencil, first page notes "shot with a catapult at Repton School by Oxley Graham" The notes cover 1881 to 1886 and include a fishing trip to Germany, but mostly just a list of birds and animals including 1 roebuck. Graham's ownership signature to front paste down 1881, inner hinge paper cracked, original black paper covered boards, gilt title and vignette of a bird being skinned?, rhino skeleton vignette to rear. Small scuff marks to front board, rubbing to spine edge, 4cm repair to spine edge, vg-. The book went into many editions the 11th being published in 1923.
Ref:
3899
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