GOING TO THE MOORS. By Ronald Eden.

1979 1st edition. 4to (182 x 242mm). Pp213. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography. Mottled cream linen, stamped grouse motif printed in black to upper board, spine titled in black.

This is a good history of the annual migration of English sportsmen to the grouse moors of Scotland. A well researched, readable and well illustrated look at Scottish field sports. Chapters include: Born to the hill; Scotland discovered; A sporting resort; Taking a moor; The journey north; Highland quarters; The noble grouse; Dogs; Driving; August; Ladies!; By days; Painters in the heather; Fireside tales; Dining on grouse; A taste of Cromlix. NB. The faint doodle on the dust-wrapper is faithfully reproduced from the Victorian doodle on the original painting, and is not a fault of any individual copy.