HUNTING –

A selection of writings that describe hunting and shooting from the earliest times through the present. Included is stag hunting, falconry, pheasant & grouse shooting, sporting guns, poaching and preservation.

“Attractive and well-illustrated anthology of sporting writing sponsored by Baxters, the game-soup people, with a few of their recipes to the rear. Chapters include: Sportsmanship and conservation; ‘Dunghill’ gentlemen and the game-hunting tradition; The age of falconry; Game and the law; The literature of the chase; Stag-hunting and ‘the noblest beast’ of venery; ‘The last of the Free Foresters’; Histories of the pheasant; Artists in firearms; The rise of the grouse; The partridge – rearing and shooting; Minor gamebirds – capercaillie, black grouse, ptarmigan and woodcock; Man’s sporting character; ‘First catch your hare.’ ”

First Edition. pp. 221 illusts. #150425