Author: Lt. Col. P. Hawker
Title: Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Related to Guns and Shooting
Description: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. Leather. A guide to guns and shooting by Lt Col. Peter Hawker adorned with lovely woodcuts. The sixth edition of this work, bound together with Abridgement of the New Game Laws, appendix to the sixth edition of Instructions to Young Sportsmen. A handbook for the young sportsmen concerning guns and shooting, with observations and suggestions for their improvements. Written by Peter Hawker, celebrated diarist and author and a shooting sportsman accounted one of the "great shots" of the nineteenth century. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven full page plates as well as numerous wood-cuts in text. Collated, complete. In quarter calf binding over cloth covered boards. Externally sound with some shelf wear, chipped with minor loss to head and tail of spine, joints starting, boards holding firm, bumped to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. George Hawkins-Goold 1889 stamp to recto frontispiece. Pages generally clean with occasional minor light spotting scattered to odd leaf, particularly leaves of plates. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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