Author:
WALSH J.H. ("Stonehenge")
Title:
The Modern Sportsman's Gun And Rifle, Including Game And Wildfowl Guns, Sporting And Match Rifles, And Revolvers 2 volumes
Price:
£250.00
Year:
1882,1884
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Horace Cox
Summary:
xvi 504, xvi-584 pages, each volume with numerous related adverts some with illustrations. Frontis to each volume, illustrated throughout with full page plates including folding plates, and numerous text illustrations including line drawings, targets, guns, gun parts, bullets etc. Bound in the publishers matching dark green cloth, gilt title within ruled borders to upper covers some light rubbing to head and tail of the spines. A vg clean set so often found in a poor condition. Volume 2 appeared 2 years after Volume 1. A major work on the subject, Walsh was editor of The Field for 25 years, he details all aspects of construction, powder, ammunition etc in detail. "The most detailed and up to date description of the guns used for sporting since Greeners Gunnery in 1858". Chute 654, Riling 1114
Ref:
23483
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