Author: MILLAIS John Guille
Title: The Wildfowler in Scotland. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF MILLAIS IN SCOTLAND
Description: Longmans Green & Co.,, 1901. Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 8 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), 2 plates in colour, and 50 illustrations in the text, free endpapers very lightly browned; original half vellum gilt, blue-grey boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Millais' sojurn in the Highlands was partly for the purpose of collecting specimens for his well-known portrayals of surface-feeding and diving ducks.

Keywords: sporting, field sports, wildfowling, shooting, scotland, millais, john guille millais


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