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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 367 pages plus indexes (complete). A passive copy. The boards are grubby. They retain a weary elegance. There handling and storage marks and wear all about. They are sure. The contents are very clean, clear, benign, confident, authoritative. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. This richly illustrated guide to modern shooting, the third volume in the Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes series published by Seeley, Service & Co. The third volume in the Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes series published by Seeley, Service & Co.Undated, however per the printers' information to the final page of the text, published 1947.With more than one hundred monochrome illustrations appearing throughout the text. These are 75 plate photographs, including a frontispiece of Lord Lonsdale shooting at Lowther Castle, and forty one vignettes, including several diagrams and a map of the Dunwich marshes.This copy with the bookplate of Christopher Perkins to the recto of the second page of publisher's advertisements to the front of the work.This is a thorough guide to the modern shooting methods suitable for the moor, field, and shore. Endowed with the collective knowledge of fifteen contributors including Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, and J. C. M. Nichols, it contains specific chapters on the shooting and preservation of various birds, hare drives, punt gunning, and the legal aspect of shooting. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with slight discolouration of the cloth and some minor handling marks. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Front hinge strained. Bookplate to the recto of the second page of publisher's advertisements to the front of the work resulting in paste action, visible to its verso. Internally, binding is a touch strained at the centre. Pages are a trifle age toned however generally bright and clean with mild spotting to the outer leaves. Very Good Indeed. Multiple plate photographs including by Oliver G. Pike, Seton Gordon, and W. A. Rouch. (illustrator). book. …