HOW I BECAME A SPORTSMAN: BEING EARLY REMINISCENCES OF A VETERAN SPORTSMAN. By "Avon." With illustrations by Vereker M. Hamilton. New edition.

(1882) 1888 new edition. Small 8vo (132 x 193mm). Ppx,206. B/w plate illustrations by Vereker M. Hamilton. Red cloth, upper board titled and ruled in black, spine titled in gilt, publisher's logo in black to lower board.

The author's early reminiscences of shooting game birds and ground game, fishing for pike and trout, riding and fox hunting. "In venturing to place before the public this little work, the author does not for one moment attempt to claim for it anything more than an endeavour to give a hint to the embryo, or perhaps to amuse the more mature or declining, sportsman. As the title expresses, these reminiscences are the author's early experiences only, and must not therefore be expected to throw very much daylight on the subjects treated of. Nor must the reader expect any learned advice or dissertations on sport in general; still at times a point or two will crop up which the author considers to be crucial ones in making a good, bad, or indifferent sportsman, particularly in what relates to the gun." Chapters include:- My first gun; My first pony; A black diamond; My first of September; Two big pike; My first woodcock; Old Ben; Dartmoor; The big trout; Fox-hunting.