FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF SPORT. By James Henry Corballis. Edited by Arthur T. Fisher (Major late 21st Hussars).

1891 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 230mm). Ppxii,502. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving of a stalking scene & with 4 other plates. Dark green cloth, spine & upper board titled & decorated in gilt.

Chapters on hunting and horses, shooting, deer-stalking, salmon and trout fishing, falconry and golf, taken largely from the author's experiences in Scotland. The editor thanks F.H. Salvin, author of Falconry In The British Isles, for his assistance in compiling the falconry chapter, "He has also very kindly lent some of the plates from that valuable work." The four plates referred to, three of falconry equipment and one by George Edward Lodge of a goshawk taking a rabbit, are numbered I, II & III, IV and V, and in this copy they are bound in at the back, after the text.