THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME (and) THE AMATEUR POACHER. By Richard Jefferies.

THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME (and) THE AMATEUR POACHER. By Richard Jefferies.

THE RETURN OF THE GREY PARTRIDGE: Restoring nature on the South Downs. By Roger Morgan-Grenville and Edward Norfolk.

THE RETURN OF THE GREY PARTRIDGE: Restoring nature on the South Downs. By Roger Morgan-Grenville and Edward Norfolk.

OLLY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK OLIVER ROBINSON, 2ND MARQUIS OF RIPON. By Rupert Godfrey.

2012 1st edition. 4to (195 x 258mm). Ppx,222. Colour paintings and b/w illustrations by the Marquess of Ripon, b/w photographs, pictorial end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Oliver Robinson, later the 2nd Marquis of Ripon, was famous in his day, partly for his marksmanship and slick gun-handling, but also for the sheer number of birds he shot every season. This book is partly a sporting biography but also serves as a history of one aspect of Society, with a capital S, of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Real history intrudes interestingly from time to time. Before his succession to the title, Oliver Robinson was elected MP for Ripon and before this, he had accompanied a British diplomatic delegation to the USA as an attache to his father. (Alabama Commission and Treaty of Washington, 1871). Most of the Marquis's career, and therefore this book, however, concerns shooting gamebirds. This first edition is limited to 1500 copies only.
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Author Godfrey (Rupert).
Book Code 29666
ISBN B00BI3X5Q4.
Book Description Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Signed by the author.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 2012
Publisher Published by the author.
Place NP.