The Young Archer's Guide; Or Instructions in the Use of the Long Bow; With Observations on the Various Apparatus Used in the Practice of Archery, to which are Added, an Explanation of the Different Kinds of Shooting, with the Rules to be Observed, and Directions for Reckoning the Game.

First and only edition. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, "archery was revived as a fashionable pastime among the English aristocracy thanks to a nostalgic taste for the gothic and medieval" (Johnes, p. 193). WorldCat records only four institutional holdings: the British Library, and the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and California. Lake, p. 269. Martin Johnes, "Archery, romance and elite culture in England and Wales", History, vol. 89, no. 2, Apr. 2004. Octavo (173 x 108 mm), pp. 36. Wood-engraved frontispiece, diagrams. Original green quarter roan, drab boards, front cover printed with advertisement for Hughes's Archery. Housed in recent green cloth solander box. Binding soiled, a little loss to spine ends, head sometime repaired, foxing and faint damp stains to contents: in very good condition.