TALES OF A RAT-HUNTING MAN. By Brian Plummer.

(1978) 1979 reprint. 8vo paperback (128 x 193mm). Pp141,ill. B/w frontispiece, vignette illustrations. Colour cartoon cover illustration man chasing terrier, chasing rats, titles in red and puce, by John Miller.

Brian Plummer holds forth on the subject of the rat, and his part in its downfall. With this book, "Brian Plummer scores again ...This is a view of rats by someone who has spent much of his life pursuing them, and it is both a serious book on rats and their habits and a further instalment of his own autobiography, as eccentric and entertaining as before - not to say macabre (...hunting rats in a maggot factory?) ...A fascinating book, invaluable to the hunter and terrier-owner". Chapters include: Black and brown rats - and never the twain shall meet; The Real McCoy - the brown rat; The hunting of the rat; Ferrets; Ratting dogs; The rat pits; Training a terrier to rat; Of rats and men; Mexborough, glorious Mexborough; The way south; The Midlands. This is a reprint of the Robin Clark paperback edition of this title. The first cover had a full-page photograph of Brian Plummer walking down the verge of a lane with some terriers. This issue has a new design contemporary to the era, with the ubiquitous paperback typeface and a cartoon illustration by John Miller of a man chasing a terrier which is in turn chasing rats.