MODERN GAME SHOOTING. By Roderick Willett. The Lonsdale Library.

1975 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 221mm). Pp375. B/w photographs plates, line illustrations, recipes, brief bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"The product of a lifetime of experience by a recognised expert ...who has for many years been shooting correspndent of The Field". All round how to do it manual of all types of British game shooting. Concludes with a chapter of recipes, with advice on cooking more or less everything you might shoot (and want to eat). Chapters include:- The shotgun; The cartridge; Gun and cartridge in the field; How to shoot your best; Safety in the shooting field; Clothing and equipment; Factors in shoot management; Management of rough shoots; Syndicates and their organization; Partridges: natural history; Partridges: conservation and management; Partridges: shooting; Pheasants: natural history; Pheasants: conservation and management; Pheasants: shooting; Grouse: natural history; Grouse moor management; Grouse shooting; Duck on an inland shoot; Woodcock; Snipe; Blackgame; Capercaillie; Ptarmigan; Hares and hare drives; Rabbits and rabbit control; Woodpigeon; How to make the most of a day's rough shooting; Shooting overseas and for overseas visitors; Gamebird diseases; Lawful and unlawful occasions; Game cookery (or the gourmet's concise guide to game), brief list of appropriate cookery books*. Bibliographical pencil note on front paste-down reads - 'The first 1000 copies of this edition did not contain a frontispiece. And it was never included in subsequent editions'.