SHOOTING SITTING: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHOOTING WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT. By Robin Chute.

# 2002 1st edition. 4to (211 x 303mm). Pp193. Colour and b/w plates, illustrations. Dark blue buckram with gilt morocco spine label.

# "This is the book that I wanted to write whilst collating my [collection of] older books for 'Shooting Flying,' when I found the early prose and verse on fowling and the fowling piece absolutely fascinating to read, and the tales of how our ancestors had to work for their game in the 17th and 18th centuries rather humbling." This anthology, therefore, traces the evolution of shooting from Gervase Markham's description of the first use of the flintlock in 1621, to the hammerless sidelock ejector of the late 19th century. A useful addition to Robin Chute's bibliography, "Shooting Flying," - and a lot more fun to read!