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- PublisherHarmsworth Press
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0900436042
- ISBN 13 9780900436048
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages136
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SPANIELS: THEIR BREAKING FOR SPORT AND FIELD TRIALS. By H.W. Carlton. With an Introduction by W. Arkwright. Ninth edition.
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1976). (1915) 1976 9th edition. 16mo (107 x 172mm). Ppxvi,136,iv ads. B/w plate frontispiece with new (1976) photographs on preceding page. Adverts from the original. Green boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Owner's address / bookseller's stamp to front end-paper else good-plus in rather rubbed dust-wrapper. "I am painfully aware that [this book's] very thoroughness creates [a] difficulty. What is there left to me to write about? .I will draw attention to the rather obvious fact that Mr. Carlton's work fills a gap in gundog literature; for it is, I believe, the only one that has ever been devoted in its entirety to the breaking - to the education of the spaniel." William Arkwright in the Introduction to the fifth edition, 1931. A thorough, authoritative and ground-breaking book, still of much use. The contents cover, general principles, the perfect spaniel with regard to its duties, early lessons for puppies, other methods of teaching puppies retrieving, dropping to shot, subesequent retrieving lessons, hunting in cover, the open and hedgerows, work with the gun, brace and team work, water work, some difficulties and suggestions, psychology and dog-breaking,field trials. . Seller Inventory # 4535
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SPANIELS: THEIR BREAKING FOR SPORT AND FIELD TRIALS. By H.W. Carlton. With an Introduction by W. Arkwright. Ninth edition.
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Harmsworth Press. London. 1976.
(1976)
ISBN 10: 0900436042
ISBN 13: 9780900436048
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1976). (1915) 1976 9th edition. 16mo (108 x 172mm). Ppxvi,136,4pp ads. B/w plate frontispiece with new (1976) photographs on preceding page. Adverts from the original. Green boards, spine and upper board titled in gilt. Slight spotting to top edge, bookseller stamp to front end-paper, else very good in rubbed and creased dust-wrapper. "I am painfully aware that [this book's] very thoroughness creates [a] difficulty. What is there left to me to write about? .I will draw attention to the rather obvious fact that Mr. Carlton's work fills a gap in gundog literature; for it is, I believe, the only one that has ever been devoted in its entirety to the breaking - to the education of the spaniel." William Arkwright in the Introduction to the fifth edition, 1931. A thorough, authoritative and ground-breaking book, still of much use. The contents cover: general principles; the perfect spaniel with regard to its duties; early lessons for puppies; other methods of teaching puppies retrieving; dropping to shot; subesequent retrieving lessons; hunting in cover, the open and hedgerows; work with the gun; brace and team work; water work; some difficulties and suggestions; psychology and dog-breaking; field trials. . Seller Inventory # 20538
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