ROUGH SHOOT: SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE OWNER-KEEPER. By Captain E.H. Lynn-Allen.

1942 1st edition, unlimited issue. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp160. B/w frontispiece with four ducks, b/w illustrations by the Master of Elphinstone, pictorial end-papers. Green cloth, gilt titles within ruled borders to spine.

The object of this book "is to help those who have leisure, but strictly limited finances, to obtain a further measure of enjoyment from their relatively small shooting acreage. ...A collection of facts and suggestions which may be helpful to those of us who must run their own shoots without professional aid." Useful and readable with some good pencil sketches. Remarkably, this book was written and illustrated in a Bavarian prisoner of war camp (Offlag VIIC, at Laufen) during 1941, and published in Britain only a year later. There were two issues of the first edition, one limited to 500 copies and this unlimited issue. The limited issue has the t-p title printed in blue opposite a colour frontispiece of three ducks flying over a stream running through fields. This unlimited issue has a title-page entirely in black opposite a b/w frontispiece of four ducks taking flight from a marsh. The colour frontispiece is titled "October Evening", the title of the b/w frontispiece is "Mallard - Daylight Alarm". Both issues have the War Economy Standard logo and statement on the title-page verso. The reprints all followed the pattern of the unlimited issue.