Practical Wildfowling by Sharp Henry: First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1895. Plates and text illustrations throughout. Paper browned throughout as usual (due to paper quality). Illustrated adverts at the beginning and end of the book. Publishers gilt decorated and lettered green cloth very lightly rubbed around the edges. Some light marking and the spine is very slightly darkened. Generally a very good solid copy. Plates and text illustrations throughout. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edn, VI 300 pages,plus adverts, text and full page illus, paper browned as usual, original green cloth with gilt title and goose vignette to upper board, name on half title, spine and corners little worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edn, VI 300 pages ,plus adverts, text and full page illus, paper browned as usual, rebound in quarter calf, original front cover bound in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edn, VI 300 pages,plus adverts, text and full page illus, paper browned as usual, original green cloth with gilt title and goose vignette to upper board, name on half title, nice copy.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo (22 x 15cm). pp.[viii]+300. Original green cloth stamped in black, with gilt lettering and vignettes of geese. Yellow coated endpapers containing advertisments, pp 1-3, 4-[36]. 176 black and white illustrations. Top and bottom edges of boards very slightly bumped, edges browned but contents clean. Overall a very good bright example. First edition of Sharp's first book, designed to be a breechloader-age replacement for Hawker's "Instructions to Young Sportsmen". With chapters on guns, ammunition, punts, decoys, various game birds etc. Illustrations by Herbert Sharp, the author's brother. A 1902 press-cutting is tipped into the front endpaper, relating to the Victorian Wild Birds Protection Act.…