Instructions To Young Sportsmen In All That Relates To Gun And Shooting
Author:
HAWKER Col P.
Year:
1816
Edition:
2nd Edn Considerably Enlarged and Improved
Publisher:
R Hunter
Summary:
(cviii)+324+(22) pages, tall 8vo., hand coloured frontis of a punt approaching wildfowl + 5 engraved plates. Some occasional spotting to the plain plates, bookplate to the front paste down, Bound in a later not recent full tan calf spine in compartments with gilt tooled decorations, light rubbing to edges. A very good clean copy. Hawker's classic work running to 10 editions in his lifetime. The 1st, being written at the request of friends which had no plates or embellishments. The 2nd was updated, and plates added. One of the most informative books on shooting particularly wildfowling of the 19th century. Chute 285, Riling 373
Ref:
24351
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