WILD-FOWL. By L.H. de Visme Shaw, with chapters on shooting the duck and the goose by W.H. Pope; Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather and Fin Series.

# (1905) 1994 new edition. Small 8vo (130 x196mm). Ppxxxiii,278. New colour frontispiece by Rodger McPhail, illustrations, foreword by the Duke of Westminster, 21 page introductory essay by Dr. Mike Swan. Green boards, spine and upper board titled in gilt.

# "With chapters on shooting the duck and the goose by W.H. Pope. Cookery by W. Alexander Innes Shand." This is a nice facsimile reprint of the 1905 first edition, with a series foreword by the Duke of Westminster and a twenty-one page introductory essay by Dr. Mike Swan of the Game Conservancy's Advisory Service. Sections by L.H. de Visme Shaw: Shooting the Duck - at sea, inland and on the shore, preserving and luring the duck; The duck in the decoy; Natural history of the goose. W.H. Pope: Shooting the goose; Shooting the duck and the goose afloat by night; Shooting the duck on Continental waters. Alexander Innes-Shand: Cookery of ducks and geese. This is Volume 5 of the 12 volume "Game Conservancy Edition" of the New Fur, Feather and Fin series. Edition limited to 500 numbered sets. Out-of-series, un-numbered copies of each title were issued singly, this is one of those single copies.