TRAP MAKING STEP BY STEP: DETAILED PLANS FOR PROFESSIONALS, GAMEKEEPERS AND SMALLHOLDERS. By John Bryan.

2008 1st edition. Large-format paperback (210 x 297mm). Pp103. B/w photographs, line illustrations and plans of traps, brief bibliography.

Long-awaited answer to the long-standing need for working plans of traps for the practical gamekeeper and smallholder. This book contains step by step instructions for a wide variety of largely traditional, tried and tested traps. Full dimensions, cutting list and detailed building instructions are given for each. The traps themselves appear in ascending order of complication in order to avoid repetitious explanations of technique. Advice follows on effective and legal use of each type of trap. Box traps of various sorts, see-saw traps, rabbit drop-box traps, wire meshtraps, Larsen traps, pigeon traps, funnel traps, ladder traps, spring trap tunnels.