The Sportsman's Directory Or Park And Gamekeepers Companion
Author:
MAYER John
Year:
1845
Edition:
7th Edn,
Publisher:
Simpkin Marshall and Co.,
Summary:
IV 181 pages, 2 pages advs, illus + text, some occasional foxing to contents, publishers blind stamped cloth with gilt sporting vignette to upper board, vg. A comprehensive guide 1st published in 1815, which has been revised and brought up to date in the 7th edition. Instructions for breeding, feeding and breaking dogs, hunting, coursing and shooting, fishing, preserving game and decoys, breeding pheasants, partridges, pigeons, rabbits etc. Also a description of all kinds of poaching, how to detect poachers, and to destroy their works.
Ref:
3122
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