THE TROUT. By the Marquess of Granby with Chapters on Breeding by Colonel F.R. Custance, Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather and Fin Series.

THE TROUT. By the Marquess of Granby with Chapters on Breeding by Colonel F.R. Custance, Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather and Fin Series.

SNIPE AND WOODCOCK. By L.H. de Visme Shaw. With chapters on Snipe and Woodcock in Ireland by Richard J. Usher, Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather and Fin Series. Signet Press edition.

SNIPE AND WOODCOCK. By L.H. de Visme Shaw. With chapters on Snipe and Woodcock in Ireland by Richard J. Usher, Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather and Fin Series. Signet Press edition.

THE RABBIT. By James Edmund Harting, with a chapter on Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather and Fin Series.

1898 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 195mm). Ppx,256 + 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear. B/w illustrations by Thorburn, Whymper, Lodge and Alken. Binding A. Oatmeal coloured cloth, printed in red, brown and gilt, with elaborate image of grouse and hare on upper board, black end-papers, uniform with other titles in this series. * First issue. The advertisements at the rear list nine titles in the series.

Natural history and sport. Another fine title in this excellent series. Chapters include: Natural history of the rabbit; The warren; Ferreting; Shooting; Trapping, snaring, netting and bolting; Poaching; The Ground Game Act; Rabbit-hawking with the goshawk; The cookery of the rabbit. This series of monographs by the most experienced sportsmen of the day are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on British game species. The series was renamed "The Fur, Feather and Fin Series" part way through publication when it was decided to include the volumes, Salmon, Trout, and, Pike and Perch. * First issue. The advertisements at the rear list nine titles in the series. The list of titles at the front, and the ads at the rear, list Wildfowl as a forthcoming title, citing the author as the Hon. John Scott-Montagu. Later issues list eleven titles, and and include Wild Fowl (two words) with the actual eventual author, L.H. de Visme Shaw.
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37350
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Author Fur, Feather and Fin Series. Series editor - Alfred E.T. Watson. Author - Harting (James Edmund).
Book Code 37350
ISBN B0013HT01Y.
Book Description Cloth slightly soiled. Good-plus.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1898
Publisher Longmans, Green, and Co.,
Place London.