BAXTER'S GAME BOOK. Edited by John Mowbraye.

1973 1st edition. 4to (192 x 259mm). Ppxviii,221. Colour and b/w plates from old engravings, line illustrations by John Roberts. Black-flecked burgundy boards, spine titled in gilt.

This is an attractive and well-illustrated anthology of sporting writing sponsored by Baxters, the game-soup people, with a few of their recipes to the rear. Chapters incldue: Sportsmanship and conservation; 'Dunghill' gentlemen and the game-hunting tradition; The age of falconry; Game and the law; The literature of the chase; Stag-hunting and 'the noblest beast' of venery; 'The last of the Free Foresters'; Histories of the pheasant; Artists in firearms; The rise of the grouse; The partridge - rearing and shooting; Minor gamebirds - capercaillie, black grouse, ptarmigan and woodcock; Man's sporting character; 'First catch your hare...'.