BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN: BIG GAME HUNTING AND ANGLING. Compiled and edited by "The Sportsman."

1914 1st edition. Folio (285 x 390mm). Pp593. Illustrated with photogravure and b/w photograph plates, including portraits, title-page printed in red and black. Binding A. Original red full morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt and blind rules to boards, inner dentelles gilt, titles, gilt crest to upper board, marbled endpapers with red cloth strip to hinges, all edges gilt, bevelled edges. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. .

The third volume in a lavish series of books by and about leading sportsmen of the day. The first 172 pages are on big game hunting; the following 166 pages are concerned with angling. There are a further 192 pages of short biographies of 186 "Celebrities With The Rifle," and 60 pages on 47 noted anglers, "Sportsmen With The Rod," most of which include a portrait photograph of the subject. Chapters on big game hunting by F.C. Selous, James Sutherland, J.C.B. Statham, H. Frank Wallace, J. Turner-Turner, C.R.E. Radclyffe, C. Phillipps-Wolley and others. Chapters on angling by R.B. Marston, F.G. Morgan, Col. R.F. Meysey-Thompson, Cecil Braithwaite, John Holt Schooling, J. Turner-Turner, J.C. Rokeby-Hallen, Rev. H.T. Adams, F.G. Richmond, Arthur R. Price and F.G. Aflalo. Brief biographies, usually with a portrait, of "Celebrities with the rifle" and "Sportsmen with the rod." This were mostly penned by the individual concerned and were presumably offered as an incentive to subscribe to the series. This is volume 3 in a 13-volume series (though bookseller Peter Harrington lists a set of 16 works in 17 volumes).