THE SHOOTING-MAN'S ENGLAND. Edited by Patrick Chalmers. The English Scene Volume 1.

# 1936 1st edition. 8vo (136 x 207mm). Pp245,ad. B/w photograph plates, decorative end-papers. Red-cloth backed decorative linen, spine titled in gilt. State A, with 8 full-page b/w photograph plates.

# Patrick Chalmers offers the reader an extended series of essays and articles on England and English history, as seen from the sporting point of view. Chalmers includes pieces on all aspects of game shooting, poaching and game cookery, as well as shooting in art and in fiction. Chapters include: The dim red dawn; The birth of Gunhilda; The coming of the Partner; Our hero as he was and is; Hospitality; The boy; The naturalists; The villainy or otherwise of saltpetre; A nucleus and some satellites; Moor and manor; Fur and feather; shiny nights; Mrs Beeton; The gun in art and on Helicon; The shooting-man in fiction.