alfred e t watson macpherson (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback in good condition Cover is faded. 1895 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 197mm) Oatmeal-coloured cloth, printed in red, brown & gilt, with elaborate image of grouse and hare on upper board, black end-papers, uniform with other titles in this series.

First edition, second printing. Very good in half leather boards with silver illustration on front board. Some spotting.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1895). 1895 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 197mm). Ppx,265,ads. B/w plates after Archibald Thorburn. Binding A. Oatmeal-coloured cloth, printed in red, brown & gilt, with elaborate image of grouse and hare on upper board, black end-papers, uniform with other titles in this series. A nice cover but the edges of the text block are stained throughout so a good reading copy only. Bookplate. Chapters on natural history by Rev. H.A. Macpherson, shooting by A.J. Stuart-Wortley and cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. This series of monographs by the most experienced sportsmen of the day are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on British game species. Chapters include: The Pheasant in History; The Pheasant of the Woodlands; Old-World Fowling; Poaching in the Nineteenth-Century Style; How to Show Pheasants; How to kill Them; Wild-bred and Hand-reared; Policy and Protection; Landscape and Larder; and the Cookery of the Pheasant. The series was renamed "The Fur, Feather and Fin Series" part way through publication when it was decided to include the volumes, Salmon, Trout, and, Pike and Perch. .

Zustand: Good. First Edition. G+ : in Good condition plus without dust jacket. Bookplate at pastedown. Browning within. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 293pp, + catalogue. Light brown hardback cloth cover with illustration.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Thorburn, Archibald (illustrator). 1895. Very good condition with no wrapper. Fur and Feather Series edited by Alfred E.T. Watson. Includes Natural History of the Pheasant by Rev. H.A. MacPherson; Shooting the Pheasant by A.J. Stuart-Wortey; Cookery of the Pheasant by Alexander Innes Shand. 265 pages, plus 24 page booklist to rear. B/w illustrations. Browning to spine; some marks to covers. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges and some page margins. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1895). (1895) 1912 reprint. Small 8vo (130 x 197mm). Ppx,265. B/w plates after Archibald Thorburn. Oatmeal-coloured cloth, printed in red & brown, with elaborate image of grouse and hare on upper board, uniform with other titles in this series. This reissue is titled in red (rather than gilt) and has white end-papers. Front end-paper browned but a very good copy. Chapters on natural history by Rev. H.A. Macpherson, shooting by A.J. Stuart-Wortley and cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. This series of monographs by the most experienced sportsmen of the day are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on British game species. Chapters include: The Pheasant in History; The Pheasant of the Woodlands; Old-World Fowling; Poaching in the Nineteenth-Century Style; How to Show Pheasants; How to kill Them; Wild-bred and Hand-reared; Policy and Protection; Landscape and Larder; and the Cookery of the Pheasant. The series was renamed "The Fur, Feather and Fin Series" part way through publication when it was decided to include the volumes, Salmon, Trout, and, Pike and Perch. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1893). (1893) 1896 3rd edition. Small 8vo (130 x 195mm). Ppviii,276 + ii pp + ii pp ads for Badminton Library & other sporting books + 32pp undated publisher's catalogue at rear. Engraved plates by A.J. Stuart-Wortley, Archibald Thorburn and Charles Whymper. Oatmeal-coloured cloth, printed in red, brown & gilt, with elaborate image of grouse and hare on upper board, black end-papers, uniform with other titles in this series. Cloth slightly faded and bumped, bookplate, ownership inscriptions from 1898. Good-plus. Chapters on natural history by the Rev. H.A. Macpherson, shooting by A.J. Stuart-Wortley and cookery by George Saintbury. Subjects include; Natural history - the partridge at home and abroad, in the fields, courtship, nests, partridges as pets, colours, poaching. Shooting - 'arma virumque cano,' form good and bad, driving, walking-up, ground, stock, poaching, some records and comparisons, 'verbum sap.' Cookery of the partridge. This series of monographs, by the most experienced sportsmen of the day, are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on the British game species. The series was renamed "The Fur, Feather and Fin Series" part way through publication when it was decided to include volumes on Salmon, Trout, and Pike and Perch. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1896). (1895) 1896 2nd edition. Small 8vo (130 x 197mm). Ppx,265,ads. B/w plates after Archibald Thorburn. Binding A. Oatmeal-coloured cloth, printed in red, brown & gilt, with elaborate image of grouse and hare on upper board, black end-papers, uniform with other titles in this series. Slight use and foxing but a very good bright copy. Chapters on natural history by Rev. H.A. Macpherson, shooting by A.J. Stuart-Wortley and cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. This series of monographs by the most experienced sportsmen of the day are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on British game species. Chapters include: The Pheasant in History; The Pheasant of the Woodlands; Old-World Fowling; Poaching in the Nineteenth-Century Style; How to Show Pheasants; How to kill Them; Wild-bred and Hand-reared; Policy and Protection; Landscape and Larder; and the Cookery of the Pheasant. The series was renamed "The Fur, Feather and Fin Series" part way through publication when it was decided to include the volumes, Salmon, Trout, and, Pike and Perch. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1893). (1893) 1912 reissue of 1896 3rd edition. Small 8vo (130 x 195mm). Ppviii,276. Engraved plates by A.J. Stuart-Wortley, Archibald Thorburn and Charles Whymper. Oatmeal-coloured cloth, printed in red & brown, with elaborate image of grouse and hare on upper board, uniform with other titles in this series. Spine titled in red (rather than gilt, and white end-papers. No advertisements at rear. Spine darkened else a very good copy. Chapters on natural history by the Rev. H.A. Macpherson, shooting by A.J. Stuart-Wortley and cookery by George Saintbury. Subjects include; Natural history - the partridge at home and abroad, in the fields, courtship, nests, partridges as pets, colours, poaching. Shooting - 'arma virumque cano,' form good and bad, driving, walking-up, ground, stock, poaching, some records and comparisons, 'verbum sap.' Cookery of the partridge. This series of monographs, by the most experienced sportsmen of the day, are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on the British game species. The series was renamed "The Fur, Feather and Fin Series" part way through publication when it was decided to include volumes on Salmon, Trout, and Pike and Perch. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1893). (1893) 1896 3rd edition. Small 8vo (130 x 195mm). Ppviii,276 + ii pp + ii pp ads for Badminton Library & other sporting books + 32pp undated publisher's catalogue at rear. Engraved plates by A.J. Stuart-Wortley, Archibald Thorburn and Charles Whymper. Oatmeal-coloured cloth, printed in red, brown & gilt, with elaborate image of grouse and hare on upper board, black end-papers, uniform with other titles in this series. Small end-paper label but a very good copy. Chapters on natural history by the Rev. H.A. Macpherson, shooting by A.J. Stuart-Wortley and cookery by George Saintbury. Subjects include; Natural history - the partridge at home and abroad, in the fields, courtship, nests, partridges as pets, colours, poaching. Shooting - 'arma virumque cano,' form good and bad, driving, walking-up, ground, stock, poaching, some records and comparisons, 'verbum sap.' Cookery of the partridge. This series of monographs, by the most experienced sportsmen of the day, are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on the British game species. The series was renamed "The Fur, Feather and Fin Series" part way through publication when it was decided to include volumes on Salmon, Trout, and Pike and Perch. .

The Hare: 1st edition; 8vo (197 x 135mm); 7 b & w plates, some pages unopened; The Partridge: 3rd edition; 8vo (197 x 135mm); 11 plates, spotting mostly to prelims; The Rabbit: 1st edition; 8vo (197 x 135mm); 10 plates, offsetting to frontispiece and title-page from tissue guard, usual age-toning; Uniformly bound, in original pictorial oatmeal cloth, with red lettering to front boards and gilt titles to spine, boards are remarkably clean and well preserved, very little fading to spines, binding is firm, overall very good condition. The Fur, Feather and Fun series were written to present monographs, as complete as could possibly be made, on the various birds, fish and beasts of the British Isles. The series were edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, who wrote articles for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.