MINOR FIELD SPORTS. By L.C.R. Cameron.

# (1920) ND [c2004] reprint. 8vo (146 x 222mm). Ppviii,166. 4 plates, text illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

# A great look at what the country boy could get up to in the early 20th century. Hunting badgers, stoats, squirrels, water-voles and moorhens, rabbits, rats and hedgehogs; Ferreting rabbits and rats; Hawking small birds, sparrow trapping, pigeon flying and racing; Rook and rabbit shooting; Sparrow, starling and wood-pigeon shooting, bow-hunting small game; Snaring pike, sniggling eels; Catching minnows and crayfish, finding bird's eggs and adders, millipede racing and beetle fighting; Hunting, shooting, coursing and angling. This edition is a modern facsimile edition with no publication details stated. It was, however, published by Read Books of Alcester, Warwickshire, in 2004. It is a hardbound volume that was not issued with a dust-wrapper. L.C.R. Cameron started life as Louis Charles Richard Jewell, later becoming Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell, and converting also from the Plymouth Brethren to Catholicism. Born in Liskeard, Duncombe-Jewell enjoyed a varied career as soldier, journalist, author and fringe eccentric. He was a founding member of the Cornish Gorsedd, member of the Welsh Gorsedd under the name Bardd Glas, wrote the first known sonnet in Cornish and was secretary of the Celtic Cornish Association besides being an expert on Cornish traditional dress - which he himself had invented. His journalism was respectable and prolific, working for The Times and covering the Boer War for the Morning Post with Winston Churchill. His books include Otters and Otter Hunting; The Handbook to British Military Stations Abroad; Rod, Pole and Perch: Fishing and Otter Hunting; Love Lies Bleeding - Rhymes of Sport in Old French Verse-Forms; Wild Foods of Great Britain - Where to Find and How to Cook Them; The Hunting Horn - What To Blow And How To Blow It.