Author:
ACTON J.
Title:
An Essay On Shooting
Price:
£250.00
Year:
1791
Edition:
2nd Edn,
Publisher:
T.Cadell, London
Summary:
313 pages, including advert leaf, contemporary full calf binding, light rubbing to edges. 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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