THE DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL 2010. VOLUME TWENTY-ONE, ISSUES 1-4.

2010 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: My journey homeward through my Highland heritage; More uncommon delights; A Purdey beyond; The effects of provenance; Philosopies of collecting; The Triple Creek Ranch; Lttle "Sweetheart" Lefever; Westley Richards, a "tour de force", past and present; A.J. Aubrey and the Meriden Firearms story; A close encounter of the unexpected kind; To the Editor of The Field; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 2 include: A toast to Wapanocca; Nash Buckingham's "Bo Whoop"; British guns and sporting rifles, Part XXII; The Abbey Gun and Greene Smith; The Littlest goose gun; Steve Barnett's fine guns; In the tradition of empire; The father of the centre-fire, George Henry Daw; L.C. Smith single barrel trap guns; A duo in the Purdey tradition; The "Rip van Winkle" Browning; Sir Walter Corbet's rifle; To the Editor of The Field; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 3 include: Remembering Michael McIntosh; Fratelli Rizzin, R1 Safari Double Rifle; T.J. Bovy and E. Schmidt and Habermann; Harrington and Richardson's best; The resurrection of a miniature Farquharson; John Wilkes, gun and rifle makers; Loading the oddball Metris and others; Odgen Smith's and Hussey Ltd; The Robert E. Peary gun; Pine Hill Plantation; British guns and sporting rifles; How to identify and describe fences; Merkel 200 Series over and under shotguns; To the Editor of The Field; The Double Gun and Single Shot List. Contents of Issue 4 include: Thomas Kennedy, maker to HRH Prince Albert; Thomas Newton (Gunmaker) Manchester; Paradox, guns for all seasons; Johann Fanzoy's brilliant boxlock rifle; Shooting and reloading for the 9.3 x 72R; Pringle's guns; The directory gun; A nice no-name Prussian Daly; The John KL. Kemmerer Francotte; The L.C. Smith skeet special; Purdey no. 8916; The boxlock over / under shotgun; An Ithaca comes home; The Double Gun and Single Shot List.