Author:
HAWKER Col P.
Title:
Instructions To Young Sportsmen In All That Relates To Gun And Shooting
Price:
£520.00
Year:
1824
Edition:
3rd considerably enlarged and improved
Publisher:
Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
Summary:
xxii 470 pages, coloured frontis "cripple chase after firing 2lbs of shot", 9 further engraved full page plates, 3 being hand coloured. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 20 plates on various sporting and related subjects some coloured including 3 double page plates of sporting dogs. Finely bound in a later full dark red morroco by Henry Young & Sons Liverpool. Top edge gilt inner ornate gilt rolled tooling, the covers with 3 rule borders within a decorative frame with central Swan vignette. The spine in 6 compartments with sporting birds and a dog vignette to compartments with decorative corner pieces within ruled borders. Small 1 mm chip to lower edge of the front cover, a fine high quality binding. A tall copy of the 3rd and most complete edition and the only edition to have the 4 coloured plates. Containing valuable information on wildfowling with a gunning punt, French hut shooting, pheasant, partridge shooting and grouse shooting and deer stalking. Schwerdt Vol 1 235m Chute 286, Riling 37
Ref:
24106
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