TALES OF THE OLD GAMEKEEPERS. By Brian P. Martin.

(1989) 1991 BCA book club edition. Large 4to (197 x 267mm). Pp189,ads. Colour illustrations by Philip Murphy, frontispiece by Will Garfit, photographs. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Estate life in the twentieth and late nineteenth centuries seen through the eyes of gamekeepers and shoot staff. Many interesting old photographs and illustrations. A first-rate read. Chapters include: Overcoming tyranny, Charles South; The world's oldest keeper? George Pryke; Brideshead Revisited, Stanley Ware; Their Majesties' Keeper, Jack Clark; Mainly from the archives; King of the gamekeepers, Harry Grass; From bird scarer to headkeeper, Len Macey; Last of the line, Wally Fakes; The one-man estate, Bill Gill; Mainly from the archives; Everyone called me 'Foxy', Frank Hunt; Good times, hard times, Harry Ward; Mainly from the archives; Honest as the day's long, Harry Churchill; Mainly from the archives; The farmer's boy, Leslie Buckle.