BROADLAND SPORT. Written and illustrated by Nicholas Everitt.

(1902) 2002 2nd edition. 8vo (160 x 238mm). Ppxxiv,393. B/w photographs, illustrations by the author. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

An attractive and comprehensive work on Norfolk sport in the early years of the century. Chapters on eel-bobbing, decoying, punt-gunning, sea-fowl, yachting, tench-tickling, pike fishing and otter hunting. Chapters include:- Oulton Broad and neighbourhood; Fishing at Oulton Broad; Eels and eel bobbing; Shooting at Oulton Broad; Decoys and how to use them; Oulton Broad to Great Yarmouth; Wildfowling at sea; Punt-gunning; Curres and short-winged fowl; Wildfowling costume; Shore shooting; Flighting; Great Yarmouth to Horning; A river yachting resort; Horning to the source of the Bure; Hickling district; Horsey district; The Waveney Valley; The Yare Valley; Yachts and yachting during the past - 1800 to 1880; Yachts and yachting during the present - 1880 to 1900; Under the lee of the Norfolk sandhills; Tench tickling; Pike and pike fishing; Pheasants from shell to shot; Otter hunting extraordinary. Appendices include:- The origin of fish preservation in Broadland; Norfolk and Suffolk Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1877; Bye-laws made by the Board of Conservation appointed under the Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries Act, 1877; Local application of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Acts, 1861 to 1886; Tables of distances; Table of tides; River tolls, and how levied; Bye-laws of the Great Yarmouth Port and Haven Commissioners for registration, numbering, regulating and control of pleasure vessels using the rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney and for other purposes.