Author:
SMITH Sydney H.
Title:
Snowden Slights, Wildfowler
Price:
£220.00
Year:
1913
Edition:
2nd Edn,
Publisher:
T A J Waddington
City of Publication:
York
Summary:
xiii 144 pages, advs, illus from photographs by the author including 1 folding plate, some foxing to first and last few pages in the original red card covers titled in black to upper board with flying duck vignette, recent matching card spine, some dust soiling to covers. The 2nd edition is much harder to find than the first, it contains a supplement with 6 extra articles and 4 extra photographs, this edition was published after Snowden Slights died. Snowden Slights was born in 1830 and spent much of his life shooting and fishing the Derwent Valley, the preface describes him as "The last of the Yorkshire wildfowlers", rare. Chute 579 notes the 1st edition but not the 2nd.
Ref:
21347