SHOOTING: FIELD AND COVERT. The Badminton Library. By Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bt.

SHOOTING: FIELD AND COVERT. The Badminton Library. By Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bt.

THE BADMINTON ANNUAL REGISTER OF SPORTING AND SOCIETY FIXTURES AND DIARY 1937 (43rd ANNUAL EDITION). Edited by E.A. Dyer.

THE BADMINTON ANNUAL REGISTER OF SPORTING AND SOCIETY FIXTURES AND DIARY 1937 (43rd ANNUAL EDITION). Edited by E.A. Dyer.

SHOOTING: MOOR AND MARSH. The Badminton Library. By Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bt. With contributions by Lord Lovat and Lord Charles Lennox Kerr.

(1886) 1887 2nd edition. 8vo (135 x 190mm). Ppxiv,348. Illustrated with b/w plates after paintings and text engravings by C. Whymper, J.G. Millais, G.E. Lodge, A.J. Stuart-Wortley and from photographs. Decorative brown cloth, printed in black, blue, white and gilt, with design of a sportsman's study on upper board and gamebirds on spine, uniform with other titles in the series.

Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, sporting notables of their day, discuss all aspects of shooting deer and moorland gamebirds, wildfowl and waders. The authors' accounts draw heavily from their own, extensive experiences. Chapters include: Grouse; Black game; Deer stalking; Deer forests; Woodcock; Snipe; Wildfowl shooting - swans and geese; Surface-feeding ducks; Diving ducks; Waders; Rails and crakes; Wildfowl shooting on shore; Punting, or wildfowl shooting afloat; Fowling punts, how to build and use them; Swivel guns; Concluding remarks on wildfowl shooting; A little plain law for game preservers, keepers and poachers. A sporting classic. This title forms a pair with its companion volume, also by Walsingham and Payne-Gallwey, Shooting: Field and Covert.
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Author Walsingham (Lord) and Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph).
Book Code 42639
ISBN B0060XOUK2.
Book Description Various minor faults. A good reading copy.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1889
Publisher Longmans, Green, and Co.
Place London.