IT'S MY DELIGHT. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Watkins-Pitchford.

1947 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 220mm). Pp175. B/w illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. Blue-green cloth, spine titled in black.

This is Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald's entertaining and readable account of poaching through the ages, drawn from many contemporary accounts and informed by his own experiences. Illustrated splendidly by 'BB', Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Chapters include: The hare; To hunt the hare; Hunting the hare; More ways than one; And still more ways; Those that poach; Privileged poachers; Just poachers; The moucher; Dogs; Partridges and pheasants; Rabbits; The game laws.