The Shooter's Guide; or, complete sportsman's companion: containing a compendious view of the game laws; a description of the various kinds of dogs, with the best mode of breeding, rearing, and training them; an account of the diseases to which they are liable, and the best methods of cure. Directions for grouse, partridge, pheasant, woodcock, snipe, hare, and wild duck shooting. With particular instructions for the juvenile sportsman, and much miscellaneous information on the choice of guns, gunpowder, shot, &c. &c. Fourth edition, enlarged and improved. By B. Thomas.

(JOHNSON), THOMAS (BURGELAND).

Publication Date: 1814

About this Item

London, printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1814. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece,III-VIII,272,(8) pp. & 4 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt with stag motif, small nick at head of upper joint, joints with a couple of small cracks but holding firm, surfaces and extremities lightly rubbed and worn. Lightly browned with some occasional soiling and foxing, plates a little more prominently browned and foxed due to paper quality. Armorial bookplate of Sarah Phillott and signature of Gunnar Brusewitz. Probably lacking half-title. See Schwerdt Hunting, hawking, shooting I:270 who has edition 1 through 6 except for this one, which is the fourth. The first edition was published in 1809. The final 8 pp. are a publisher's catalogue. Thomas Burgeland Johnson (c. 1778-1840) published a number of illustrated sporting books in the first decades of the 19th century. His attempt to break into the emerging and now highly competitive world of sporting journalism, with the launch of "The Sportsman's Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine" in 1832, failed however. Here he is using the pseudonym of "B. Thomas". He also wrote under the name of "T. H. Needham". Seller Inventory # 47014B

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Shooter's Guide; or, complete ...

Publication Date: 1814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good