1898 1st edition. Longmans, Green, & Co. London. Ppx,256,ads. Engraved plates by Archibald Thorburn, G.E.Lodge, S.Alken & Charles Whymper. Original pictorial cloth. Quite foxed but a very good clean copy.
Notes: Chapters on natural history; the warren; ferreting; shooting; trapping, snaring, netting and bolting; poaching, the Ground Game Act, rabbit-hawking with the goshawk; and cookery. 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.
