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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.

London: Longmans, Green and Co. , 1894-6. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated . A collection of the three volumes completing Ralph Payne-Gallwey's guide to shooting, a miscellany of early editions, the third series is a first. A complete guide to shooting for young sportsmen, in three volumes. Comprising the fourth edition of the first series, published in 1895, which looks at picking the perfect gun and its use; the second edition of the second series published in 1894, focussing on the killing and preserving game, with directions in shooting woodpigeons and breaking in retrievers; the first edition of the third series of 1896 with the history of British game birds and how to shoot them. Illustrated in text throughout, with a frontispiece portrait of the author to the second volume and facsimile signature. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire,… Read More

Privately published 1908. 8vo. First edition. xviii, 166 pp. Red leather spine and cloth boards with lettering and decoration to the spine and front board. Printed at the Ballantyne Press. With tipped in illustrations throughout. Spine newly bound. Cloth faded with some markings. Edges uncut, some minor markings throughout. Binding firm. . Very Good. Leather Spine. First Edition. 1908.