THE LONSDALE KEEPER'S BOOK: The Lonsdale Library Vol. XXVI.

1938 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 220mm). Pp256. B/w photographs. Gilt monogram to buckram-backed brown cloth.

"Written by well-known keepers, game farmers and with contributions by Frank Wallace and Eric Taverner". An extremely wide-ranging book which sets out the gamekeper's duties in great detail. Chapters include; Grouse and moor management, Yorkshire and Scotland; Principal foods of grouse; Feeding capacity of a moor; Pointers and setters; Partridge beats and hand rearing; Partridge's winter feeding; Pheasant rearing; Rearing and penning pheasants; Rearing pheasants in large numbers; Inside hatching; Pheasant managementon the Cotswold Game Farm; Dry food or wet?; Organizing a pheasant shoot; Rearing and management of wild duck; Trapping of vermin; Game shooting from the keeper's point of view; The gamekeeper as naturalist; The stalker and his duties; The duties of a ghillie, the improvement of lochs and rivers.