THE SHOOTING MAN'S BEDSIDE BOOK: COMPILED BY "BB".

1948 1st edition. 12mo (107 x 167mm). Ppxx,479 + 5 blank game record pages. B/w woodcut illustrations by the author. De luxe issue. Brown limp calf, spine titled in gilt, gilt vignette and rules on upper board.

"I have for many years felt the need of a Shooting Man's Bedside Book which contained, not technical instructions 'how to shoot' or 'how to breed' pheasants and manage a shoot, but which was largely composed of the best descriptive writing on the sport. What interests me (and I think I am an average person) are the actual experiences of shooting men in the field, as long as those accounts are realistic and couched in good English. ...Such have I tried to make this volume. But ...I have included a certain amount of useful information, shooting records, ballistics, etc., which are necessary and would be demanded if they were omitted. In any case they serve as pastry to what I hope will prove an interesting and palatable pie." B.B. includes a disproportionate amount of wildfowling, for its wildness sake, and, "It is also the most unpopular form of shooting, and I never cease to give thanks for this fact."