Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property with Instructions in Rifle and Pistol Shooting.

Original green cloth rebacked with original backstrip 15 x 23cm. vii + 1 + 286 + 2pp complete with 10 Plates (8 full-page, 2 folding views), and 19 in-text vignettes. "Embellishments" by Mr Bonner and others, after designs by Messrs G and R Cruikshank, Alken, Haghe, Fussell, and de Berenger. Covers very good, worn to extremities, creasing to top right corner. Slight lean to text block. Binding secure. Interiors mostly near fine with spotting and foxing. Views neatly folded although one partially torn along a fold. Neat previous owner name dated Xmas 1835 to title page. This is written in the form of letters covering courage, precautions in walking the streets of great cities, field sports and game shooting, riding and driving, frugality and extravagance, inns etc. Also a section on "Particulars and Recommendations of The Stadium, or, British National Arena for Manly and Defensive Exercises, Equestrian, Chivalric, and Aquatic Games, and Skilful and Amusing Pastimes; at the Residence of the Late Lord Cremorne, on a Space of Twenty-Four Acres, Extending from the King's Road, Chelsea, to the Thames and Distant less than 2 1/4 miles from Piccadilly.".…