Author: Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Title: The Book of Duck Decoys
Description: London, John Van Voorst, 1886 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey's study of the construction, management and history of duck decoys, with colourful illustrations to accompany the text. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. The first edition of this study of the construction and use of decoys in duck hunting. Written by English engineer, historian and ballistics expert Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, author of a number of books on military and sporting history, theory and practice. Discussing duck decoys, with instructional information on their construction and management, their history, and accounts of extant decoys. Illustrated with fourteen colour lithographs, two of which are folding, and numerous further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete. With two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very good, with light rubbing and the odd mark. Damp staining to the right of the front board, and the left of the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with the occasional handling mark and the odd light spotting, mainly to the plates. Small closed tear to the folding plate facing page 56. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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