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

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

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

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

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.
£60.00
Availability: In stock
Book Code
11337
More Information
Author Parker (Eric), Editor.
Book Code 11337
ISBN B001AW1SD0.
Book Description Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1938
Publisher Seeley Service and Co.
Place London.