(1879) 2006 facsimile edn. Excellent Press. Ludlow, Shropshire. Ppviii,240. New colour dust-wrapper by Rodger McPhail. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Notes: New facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1879, with a handsome new dust-wrapper painting by Rodger McPhail. Nineteenth century boyhood adventures with rod and gun. Chapters - The first gun; The old punt: A curious turnpike; Tree-shooting: A fishing expedition; Egg-time: A "Gip"-trap; Woodland twighlight: Traitors on the gibbet; Lurcher-Land: "The Park"; Oby and his system: The moucher's calendar: Churchyard pheasants: Before the Bench; Luke, the rabbit-contractor: The Brook Path; Farmer Willum's Place: Snipe-shooting; Ferreting: A rabbit-hunter; A Winter Night: Old tricks: Pheasant-stalking: Matchlock versus breechloader: Conclusion.
