A YEAR OF SPORT AND NATURAL HISTORY: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry and Fishing. With chapters on birds of prey, the nidification of birds and the habits of British wild birds and animals. Edited by Oswald Crawfurd.

1895 1st edition. Large 4to (228 x 286mm). Ppx,331. With numerous illustrations by Frank Feller, Bryan Hook, Cecil Aldin, A.T. Elwes, E. Neale, John Beer, P. Vienzeny, Stanley Berkeley, and G.E. Lodge. Dark red cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt shooting scene on upper board, blind-stamped stag's head on lower board.

A collection of essays on sport and natural history. Arranged seasonally from January to December and written by various contributors to the 'Field Sports and Field Studies' series of the weekly illustrated journal, 'Black and White.' "I claim for this book, in forty-five parts or sections, that it is not a mere jumbled collection of articles, but a consecutive work dealing, in their due consequence, with forty-five consecutive and most interesting seasonal phases of Sport and Natural History in the British Islands". (From the editor's Preface).