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

1929 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 222mm). Pp380. B/w photographs and illustrations. Gilt monogram to brown buckram, 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.