Author: Holt, Peter,
Title: THE KEEN COUNTRYMAN'S MISCELLANY.
Description: Quiller, Shrewsbury, 2012, 1st edn., 208pp, pictorial title, half tone ills. and line drawings in text, beige cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, brown silk marker, pictorial dustwrapper, a selection of entries on everything that the true countryman - or woman - would like to know, containing all things rural, from snippets about wood-burning stoves, vermin control, hedge-laying and wild cat sightings to blowing up wasp nests, how to get fish drunk and rules for conducting a proper snowball fight. Other gems include advice on how to trap magpies with a dead cat, a catalogue of racing trainer's excuses and an inventory of wines that no self-respecting country house cellar should be without. Packed with a gloriously random selection of rustic ephemera, this volume is the perfect gift for the countryman with an inquiring mind and a sense of humour, author signed label pasted to half title, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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