1887 · London
by WALSINGHAM, Lord and Ralph Payne-Gallwey; Gerald Lascelles and A.J. Stuart-Wortley, contrs.; Harper Pennington, C. Whymper, J.H. Oswald Brown, and G.E. Lodge, illus
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1887. Second edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in dark brown, blue, and white, gilt spine; xv,[1],357pp.; engraved frontispiece, 10 leaves of plates, including one photograph, additional text illus. throughout. General shelf wear to extremities with some exposure at corners, rear hinge cracked, holding strong but with webbing slightly exposed; externally quite attractive, about Very Good overall. Contemporary ownership inscription of a Laurence Curtis to preliminaries, as well as his very occasional pencil notes on the hunt ("Sept. 1887 Friday 8 guns, 90 partridges, 12 hares..."). Forms part of the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
A second volume, "Moor and Marsh," was published simultaneously in the same series. Rilling: "Vol. 1 deals with game shooting, beginning shooters, gunmaking, gun and hunting advice...an excellent chapter on trap-shooting." RILLING 1193. (Inventory #: 35312)
A second volume, "Moor and Marsh," was published simultaneously in the same series. Rilling: "Vol. 1 deals with game shooting, beginning shooters, gunmaking, gun and hunting advice...an excellent chapter on trap-shooting." RILLING 1193. (Inventory #: 35312)