FERRETS. By Brian Plummer.

1993 1st edition. 8vo (159 x 240mm). Ppvi,167. B/w photographs, illustrations by Derek Homden, bibliography. Brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

Plummer applies his usual intelligence and common-sense to keeping, rearing and working ferrets. Everything you need to know and a whole lot more besides! Although the title-page verso gives the copyright date as 1992 and the year of publication as 1993, no other hardback printing is known to us, and we are confident that this is the first edition. Chapters include: Polecats or ferrets; From polecat to ferret; Hobs, jills, size and colour; Housing; Feeding; Breeding; Entering to quarry; Nets; The lie up; The ferreter's dog; Ratting; Ratting dogs; Ferret shows; Diseases of the ferret.