SHOOTING: MOOR AND MARSH. The Badminton Library. By Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bt.

(1886) 1987 reprint edition. 8vo (138 x 194mm). Ppxvi,348. Engraved plates and illustrations. Gilt coat of arms and titles to black boards, spine titled in gilt. Issued in transparent plastic dust-wrapper.

"...With contributions by Lord Lovat and Lord Charles Lennox-Kerr." A nicely produced reprint of this sporting classic. Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, sporting notables of their day, discuss all aspects of shooting deer and moorland gamebirds, wildfowl and waders. The authors' accounts draw heavily from their own, extensive experiences. Chapters include; Grouse; Black game; Deer stalking; Deer forests; Woodcock; Snipe; Wildfowl shooting - swans and geese; Surface-feeding ducks; Diving ducks; Waders; Rails and crakes; Wildfowl shooting on shore; Punting, or wildfowl shooting afloat; Fowling punts, how to build and use them; Swivel guns; Concluding remarks on wildfowl shooting; A little plain law for game preservers, keepers and poachers. A sporting classic. This title forms a pair with its companion volume, also by Walsingham and Payne-Gallwey, Shooting: Field and Covert.