BORDER REFLECTIONS: CHIEFLY ON THE ARTS OF SHOOTING AND FISHING. By Lord Home. Illustrations by Rodger McPhail.

1979 1st edition. Large 8vo (175 x 246mm). Pp111. B/w illustrations by Rodger McPhail, pictorial end-papers. Dark blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

As Sir Alec Douglas Home, Lord Home was Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister. His sporting reminiscences, each chapter on a different game species, are largely based on his ancestral estates in the Scottish Borders. Mainly about game bird shooting with some wildfowling and salmon and trout fishing. Chapters include: Apprentice to nature; The grouse; The blackcock; The pheasant; The partridge; The woodcock; The snipe; The golden plover; The mallard, teal and the wildfowl; The wood pigeon; The wild goose; The hare and the rabbit; Everything in the game book; The salmon; The trout.