THE DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL 2009. VOLUME TWENTY, ISSUES 1-4.

2009 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: Waterfowling with fine doubles; British sporting guns and rifles, Part XXI; The Ithaca evolution; F. Fualkner; Musteries of the Poker Parker no. 3561, Part II; British gun auctions, Part XII; Beretta, Ferrari and Alpha Romeo; Rebirth of a legend; The Skulk; The New HandH Paradox goes to Hungary; To the Editor of the Field; The Browning "revolution guns"; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 2 include: John James Audubon, naturalist and hunter; Grass roots and double guns; The guns of Fausti; Mr Coldwell Banker's dove gun, a Parker .410; A modest Parker collection; Less of a good thing; Malring Model 90 "Skeetking"; Holland and Holland, simplicity sublime; Teal troubles; Purdey, the making of a legend; Three wonderfully different rifles; The working man's doubles, Part I; The Browning BSS; To the Editor of The Field; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 3 include: The ducks and doves of Managua; Gebrueder Merkel; A 19th Century Stephen Grant rifle and shotgun; William H. Wallace's sweet Parker "C"; Building double rifles on shotgun actions?; The Furnish Collection, the Remingtons; British gun auctions, Part XVIII; A matter of priorities; Finding out for myself, Part XVI; Driven shooting in the Highland Hills; A tribute to a man and his guns; High or low, which frame height is best?; To the Editor of The Field; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 4 include: Lancaster's Colindian; Over 100 years old and still delivering pleasure; A magic gun; Rigby's Rembrandt, Lisa Jo Tomlin; The A-3s of L.C. Smith; Uncommon delights; Parker siblings; L.C. Smith .410 shotgun production; Quail country; The Italian "Guild" action over under; To the Editor of The Field; The Double Gun and Single shot List.