SHOOTING BY MOOR, FIELD AND SHORE: A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker and others. The Lonsdale Library Volume III.

(1929) 1951 reprint. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp380 + 3pp ads. B/w photographs and illustrations. Buckram-backed tan cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, Major Portal, Major Pollard, J.C.M. Nichols, Richard Clapham, Lt.-Col. Badcock, Dugald MacIntyre, Francis Cautley, Iain Ramsay, P.D. Williams, A. Hipgrave, Alban F.L. Bacon, Barrister-at-Law, and James Andrews, M.B." Chapters include; The gun and general ballistics; General shooting hints; Clothing and equipment; The partridge, natural history, preservation, shooting; The grouse, natural history, preservation, shooting; The pheasant, natural history, rearing and stocking, shooting; The woodcock, England, Scotland; The snipe; Black game, capercaillie, ptarmigan; Hare drives; Wild geese and wild duck, shooting, ashore, punt gunning; The rough shoot; The management of a syndicate; The modern gamekeeper and his duties; Training of spaniels and retrievers, pointers and setters; The legal aspect of shooting; First aid and shooting accidents; The cookery of game.