THE BOOK OF THE RED DEER. Edited by John Ross, F.S.A., Scot.

1925 1st edition. 4to (212 x 262mm). Ppviii,161 + appendices and ads. Tipped-in b/w frontispiece photographs, b/w plates illustrations. Grey cloth with tipped-on illustration, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

This book would appear to be a cheaper issue of The Book of the Red Deer and Empire Big Game. This issue comprises only of the first half of the book, the chapters covering red deer. The later chapters on big game hunting in Canada, Australia, Africa, India, Malaysia and elsewhere have been removed. The author's preface, in which he mentions the big game chapters edited by Hugh Gunn, remains unchanged. Chapters include:- Deerstalking in the Scottish Highlands by John Ross; The deer in the morning of the world by Ludovic MacLellan Mann; Ancient deerstalkers, and other notes by Alexander Patience; With sketchbook and with rifle by V.R. Balfour-Browne; The red deer of Galloway by Sir Herbert Maxwell; Some royal hunters of the Highland deer by George Eyre-Todd; Deer and boar in Gaelic literature (Aoibhinn an Obair an t-Sealg) by Professor W.J. Watson; An American's impressions of deerstalking in Scotland by Charles W. Ogden; The future of deerstalking by Sir Iain Colquhoun; The red deer in England by G. Tyrwhitt-Drake; The red deer in New Zealand by Capt. T.E. Donne; The sportsman as an empire builder by Hugh Gunn. Appendices include:- Deer forests of Scotland; The Blighty Industries association (Ltd); The light side of sport.