SPORT IN ENGLAND: PAST AND PRESENT.
1894 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 199mm). Ppviii,190. B/w plates, patterned end-papers. Dark green cloth with printed red and black bands, upper board and spine titled in silver-gilt.
A manual for gamekeeping and game- and rough shooting. Wide-ranging advice on pheasants, grouse, partridges, woodcock, rabbits, rats, traps and trapping, nets and netting, ferrets and ferreting, "poaching and how it is done", rough shooting, warrens and rabbit farming, retrievers, "recipes for diseases in dogs" and sections on cats, stoats, weasels and rats. The author is given on the title-page as Colonel E.C.C. Hartopp. This is Edmund Charles Cradock-Hartopp, Lieut-Col, 7th King's Royal Rifles, late of the Rifle Brigade. However, the preface of the book is signed Edmund Charles L. Hartopp.
A manual for gamekeeping and game- and rough shooting. Wide-ranging advice on pheasants, grouse, partridges, woodcock, rabbits, rats, traps and trapping, nets and netting, ferrets and ferreting, "poaching and how it is done", rough shooting, warrens and rabbit farming, retrievers, "recipes for diseases in dogs" and sections on cats, stoats, weasels and rats. The author is given on the title-page as Colonel E.C.C. Hartopp. This is Edmund Charles Cradock-Hartopp, Lieut-Col, 7th King's Royal Rifles, late of the Rifle Brigade. However, the preface of the book is signed Edmund Charles L. Hartopp.
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Book Code
19241
| Author | Hartopp (Colonel Edmund Charles Cradock). |
|---|---|
| Book Code | 19241 |
| ISBN | B001AVX2HQ. |
| Book Description | Slight staining to cloth, slightly cocked. Good copy. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 1894 |
| Publisher | Horace Cox, "Field" Office. |
| Place | London. |