THE DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL 2006. VOLUME SEVENTEEN, ISSUES 1-4.

2006 issues 1-4. 4to perfect bound magazines (213 x 275mm). 150+ pages each. Colour photographs and artwork throughout. Pictorial gilt tan covers, gilt titles to spine.

A lavish, beautifully illustrated magazine devoted to sporting guns and related art. Contents of Issue 1 include: Octagenarians; Banned in America; The redemption of Pitchfork Ben; The HBSA Annual Bisley Lecture "Double Rifles", Part I; Ithaca Grade 7, Special No. 278449-T; A half century of quality no. 6 Parkers; Places we have been, Highalnd Hills Ranch; The great-granddaddy Horsley?; In the presence of the queen; A gun for a gunmaker; The Syracuse Arms Company, Part IV; Hollenbeek Gun Company's gunsmith, Fred E. Dewey; The Loon Lake Club; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 2 include: The Old Home; British gun auctions, Part III; British sporting guns and rifles; KandK Hoflieferanten; Places we have been, Wynfield Plantation; A new direction for firearm engraving; The great Peruvian adventure; A half-century of Quality No. 6 Parkers, Part II; Not all the same; The world of fiream auctions; The HBSA Annual Bisley Lecture, "Double Rifles", Part II; The syracuse Arms Company, Part V; The guns of Morris S. Kemmerer, Part I; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 3 include: Autumn's clarion call; Finding out for myself, Part XI; Mahinder Singh's Express; British gun auctions, Part IV; L.C. Smith minutiae, Part IV; Westley Richards, the early years, Part I; Remington Whitmore Model 1875; Scattergun Lodge; Everyone's favourtie; Collecting and especially shooting popular Parkers; Horsley no. 1370; The Syracuse Arms Company, Part IV; The Loon Lake Club; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 4 include: British gun auctions, Part V; Finding out for myself, Part XII; The king's double rifles, Part I; Special Order Stevens no. 56; Examples of Cogswell and Harrison; Early American shotgun makers, Part I; Golden oldies; Hinckley's Parker; Westley Richards, Part II; William Griffiths of Manchester; The Sumners, engravers to Boss and Co; L.C. Smith double and single trap guns; The "Ideal" shotgun; The Ruger Gold Label shotgun; The Syracuse Arms Company, Part VII; The Double Gun and Single Shot List.