THE DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL 2007. VOLUME EIGHTEEN, ISSUES 1-4.

2007 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: The mountain bird; finding out for myself, Part XIII; British gun auctions, Part VI; The guns of Morris S. Kemmerer, Part II; The King's double rifles, Part II; L.C. Smith engraver extraordinaire, Part I; H Grade with a twist; For the Russian czar, Part I; Westley Richards, Part III; More golden oldies; The British shotgun; Red stag stalking; The Syracuse Arms Company, Part VIII; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 2 include: Tundra swan over muzzleloaders; British gun auctions, Part VII; Consider the Parker 28 Gauge; for the Russian czar, Part II; British sporting guns and rifles, Part XVIII; Colonel thomas Thornton and his guns; To the Editor of The Field; Engraver's choice; Harrington and Richardson, 1882-1885; It is only a gun case, after all; Rio Piedra Plantation; The Flintendrilling; Of Birmingham and Belgium; L.C. Smith prototype single trap; L.C. Smith engraver extraordinaire, Part II; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 3 include: Gun not for sale; British gun auctions, Part VIII; "Not english Make"; Doing the Highland fling; Wiernhier Spezial Jagd 67; My dream team; Parkers at the end of the rainbow; Martinis, mystery and magic; And they made double rifles, Part I; To the Editor of The Field; J.B. Hauer's Optimus SN 51046' Lessons from the engravers of London; Dad's old Iver ("Ivory") Johnson Single; The Lake Club; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 4 include: Our national game bird; British gun auctions, Part IX; The elusive A Grades; And they made double rifles, Part II; British sporting guns and rifles, Part XIX; In the land of fire and ice; A rifle beyond belief; F.L. Brooks and his A1 Specials; W.J. Jeffery, a la carte; My favourite Browning superposed; Progressive cut; A poor man's Holland and Holland; Some things of value; To the Editor of The Field; The Loon Lake; The Double Gun and Single Shot List.