GAMEKEEPING AND SHOOTING FOR AMATEURS. By Guy N. Smith. Revised edition.

(1976) 1989 revised Boydell Press edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppviii,232. B/w photographs and illustrations. Binding A - Light brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

Guy Smith was an amateur gamekeeper who eventually went to live on his shoot, to devote himself more fully to it. Chapters include: Buying and using guns; Working dogs; Cartridges; Rough shooting; The role of the gamekeeper; Organising a shoot; Rabbits and hares; Pigeons; Stoats and weasels; The crow family; Hawks; Fox control; The starling menace; Badgers; Stocking with pheasants; Stocking with partridge; Woodcock and snipe; Wildfowling; Grouse and blackgame; Poachers; Experiments in conservation.