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

(1886) 1887 2nd edition. 8vo (136 x 192mm). Ppxv,357. Engraved plates and illustrations by A.J. Stuart-Wortley, Harper Pennington, C. Whymper, J.H. Oswald Brown and G.E. Lodge. Original brown pictorial gilt.

"With contributions by the Hon. Gerald Lascelles and A.J. Stuart-Wortley. With numerous illustrations by A.J. Stuart-Wortley, Harper Pennington, C. Whymper, J.H. Oswald Brown and G.E. Lodge." Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, sporting notables of their day, discuss all aspects of rough and formal shooting in great detail. The authors' accounts draw heavily from their own, extensive experiences. Chapters include: Shooting, past and present; Hints for beginners; A short history of gun-making; Prices of guns; The choice of a gun; Shooters; Partridge shooting; Pheasant and wood-pigeon shooting; Rearing; Rabbit shooting; Vermin; Keepers; Poachers and poaching; Dogs and dog-breaking; Pigeon shooting from traps; Shooting schools and clay pigeons. A sporting classic. This title forms a pair with its companion volume, also by Walsingham and Payne-Gallwey, Shooting: Moor and Marsh.