Author: Humphreys, John (ills. by John Paley),
Title: POACHERS' TALES.
Description: David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1993, reprint, 192pp, half tone hlaf title, coloured pictorial title and frontis, coloured ills. and line drawings in text, coloured endpapers, large format (10.5 x 8 inches approx.), green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the old-time poachers with details of their exploits including using long nets, gate nets, snares, snatching (of fish) and shooting, a breed of somewhat lawless men (and some women) who vied with the gamekeeper and sometimes lost, the panalties in those cases being imprisonment or even transportation, with details of some of the well known poachers of the period, men who were as well or better versed in their knowledge of wildlife as the keepers, edges tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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