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Author: ACTON J.

Title: An Essay On Shooting

Price: £230.00

Year: 1791

Edition: 2nd Edn,

Summary: XXIX 313 pages, bound in circa 1860 continental style 1/2 leather marbled boards, spine relayed, vg clean copy. The 2nd edition has extra material to the 1st, covering method of forging, boring and dressing gun barrels, causes for recoil, length of bore, remarks on gunpowder shot, wading, instructions for the art of shooting, training pointers etc. Riling 311 "The whole work is little more than a translation of Marolles work." Chute 004, Schwerdt does not mention the 2nd edition

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