Author: Rawstorne, Lawrence
Title: Gamonia: Or the Art of Preserving Game; and an Improved Method of Making Plantations and Covers, Explained and Illustrated with Fifteen Coloured Drawings by T.J. Rawlins, Taken on the Spot. A New Edition with an Introduction and a Note on the Author's Game Reister by Eric Parker
Description: Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1930. Hardcover. green cloth boards with gilt spine printing. top edge gilt. 256 pages. 15 color plates (including frontispiece). "Gamonia, or the Art of Preserving Game, was published for Lawrence Rawstorne by Rudolph Ackermann in 1837. It was privately printed, and the only copies that found their way into country house libraries were gifts from the author. Only a few copies were printed, and for many years past the book has been a rarity occasionally to be found in catalogues, bought at a high price by collectors, and valued for the quaintness and delicacy of its colored engravings." -from introduction by Eric Parker. VG - evidence of aging in board and page color, otherwise excellent without tears .

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