The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Shooting (Field and Covert)

Lord Walsingham; Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey

Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1906

About this Item

A wonderfully illustrated half Morocco leather bound edition of Badminton Library's 'Shooting'. An extremely smart edition, in half Morocco leather binding. Part of the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. The series was a sporting and publishing project conceived by Longmans Green & Co., intended as "a modern encyclopedia for the inexperienced man". Between 1885 and 1902 it developed into a series of sporting books which aimed to cover comprehensively all major sports and pastimes. Volume 5: Shooting: Field and Covert was written by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham and Ralph Frankland-Payne-Gallwey. Lord Walsingham was an English politician and amateur entomologist, while Sir Frankland-Payne-Gallwey was an English Engineer, historian, ballistics expert, and artist. Containing over 100 beautiful illustrations, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. In Badminton Library half Morocco binding, with cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. Externally, very smart. Some light rubbing to extremities. Marbled paper to pastedowns and recto of endpapers. Previous owners name to verso of front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed.

Seller Inventory # 814C11

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Shooting (Field and Covert)
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co., London
• Publication Date: 1906
• Binding: Leather
• Illustrator: A. J. Stuart-Wortley, Harper Pennington, C. Whymper, J. H. Oswald, And G. E. Lodge
• Condition: Very Good Indeed
• Book Type: book
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