HAWKER, Lt. Col. P.
Instructions to Young Sportsmen and all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Instructions to Young Sportsmen and all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Stock Code 122477
London, Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
extra-illustrated with 20 additional plates
A fine copy of Hawker's Instructions to Young Sportsmen, strikingly bound in full red morocco by Henry Young & Sons of Liverpool, and extra-illustrated with 20 additional plates.'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).
Third edition, extra-illustated; 8vo (25.5 x 17 cm); engraved hand-coloured frontispiece and 29 engraved plates (eight coloured), occasional light foxing, a little unobtrusive pencil notation, discreet bookseller's stamp to ffep verso; full red morocco by Henry Young & Sons of Liverpool, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered and gilt tooled with sporting vignettes, quadruple gilt fillet border enclosing central gilt swan to boards, small nick to foot of upper board, elaborate gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others spotted, a near-fine copy; [2], xxii, 470 pp.
Schwerdt, I, 235.
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