PAYNE GALLWEY, Sir Ralph

Letters to Young Shooters. First Series: On the Choice and Use of a Gun. Second Series: On the Production, Preservation, and Killing of Game. With Directions in Shooting Woodpigeons and Breaking in Retrievers. Third Series: A Short Natural History of British Wildfowl and Complete Directions in Shooting Wildfowl on the Coast and Inland. [In Three Volumes].

London. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1890, 1902, & 1896. Hardcover. thick8vo. 19cm, in 3 Volumes, First editions, (Vols. 1 & 2) & third edition revised & enlarged (Vol.3), with 2 frontis plates, numerous plates and illustrations, indexes, green cloth, gilt titles, some slight foxing in Vol.3, some fade speckling on volume three else a very good to fine sound set (gar). ~ "Letters. place in the hands of the rising generation of shooters. or, indeed, to any who confess inexperience in the use of the gun."(author's introduction). Ralph Payne Gallwey (1848 1916) was the 4th Baronet of the Payne Gallwey Baronetcy. Item #38034

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