SHOOTING NOTES AND COMMENTS: A BOOK CONTAINING MATTERS OF INTEREST TO SPORTSMEN. Limited edition large-paper issue.

1910 1st edition - limited edition large-paper issue. Small 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp94. Illustrated with 1 photograph and 3 text illustrations, decorative endpapers. Headings and initials printed in red. Full brick-red buckram, spine and upper board titled in gilt. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies.

This edition is printed on better paper and is larger than the standard edition. Published by cartridge-maker Kynoch in Birmingham. It contains not only notes and advice on their own cartridges but much general shooting advice, from gun-law to gundog training and basic trapping. Contributors include Nicholas Everitt, R.H. Housman, "Cornish Chough," G.H., "Jack of all Trades" and Major Arthur Acland Hood. Chapters include: Sporting cartridges; Notes on sporting cartridges; 'Factory Loaded'; The shooter's legal companion; Partridge preservation; Striking velocity of shot; 'High Birds'; Notes on the report and recoil of shot-gun cartridges; Training a retriever; Ballistic paradoxes; Two traps; Burst guns; Miniature rifle shooting.