ROUGH SHOOTING. By Gurney A. Grattan, a new and up-to-date edition edited by Roderick Willett...

(1957) 1968 revised edition. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Pp242. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"...With observations on guns, proof marks, the art of shooting, dogs and their training, game rearing, diseases of game, and the techniques of successful shoot management including month by month duties on a rough shoot, also shooting and the law including the police shotgun certificate". Chapters include: The shooting scene; The gun; The shooter and his shooting; Gun dogs; Trianing a gun dog; The partridge; Pheasants; Grouse and blackcock; Various; Rough shooting I; Rough shooting II; Rough shooting III; Management of a rough shoot; Some diseases of game birds; Monthly duties of the amateur gamekeeper; Shooting and the law.