Best edition, finely bound
Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
Third edition, “considerably enlarged and improved”. With ten plates, three hand colored. Bound without half-title. xxii, [2], 470 pp. 1 vols. Royal 8vo. Best edition, finely bound. Bound in full red straight-grain morocco gilt, spine tooled with sporting vignettes, boards with quadruple gilt fillet border and sporting cornerpieces, t.e.g., others untrimmed, by R. Sotherans [by Morell]. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Fine. Schwerdt I, p. 235.
Item #246092
The third, “and most complete edition, containing valuable information on wild-fowling with a gunning punt, French hut shooting, pheasant, partridge and grouse shooting, fly-fishing and deer-stalking” (Schwerdt).
