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Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Original wrappers. Includes articles on the Marquis of Drogheda, Captain Machell, Robert H. Labat, Frederick Wood, Football Facts and Frolics, Horse Show at New York, and more. Toning, heavy chipping to spine. A good+ copy. ; Octavo.

Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Original wrappers. Includes articles on F. S. Gulston, C. E. Liles, J. D. Saddler, Football at the Fall of the Leaf, Calf vs. Horse, An Explosive Experience in the Netherlands and more. Toning, heavy chipping to spine, chip to back cover. A very good- copy. ; Octavo.

Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Original wrappers. Includes articles on Lord Falmouth, Herbert W. Gaskell, William Snook, The Pleasures of Fishing, Masters of Hounds, Experiences at a Boar Hunt, Horses and Horse Racing of the Past and more. Toning, heavy chipping. A good- copy. ; Octavo.

Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Original wrappers. Includes articles on the Marquis of Ails, Charles O'Malley, James Alfred Squires, Frederick Barrett, Some Cricket Thoughts, Some Sport in South Africa, Sporting in Wisconsin and more. Toning and light chipping to the edges. A very good copy. ; Octavo.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1885). Volume X. July to December 1885. ii pp + 284 pp. Illustrated with numerous portrait engravings, plates illustrating guns, line drawings and decorated initials. Blue cloth with red and gilt decorations on upper board, spine titled in gilt, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. 8vo. (150mm x 216mm). Spine very faded and nicked - good only. The publishers produced ten volumes, bound in decorative cloth of diffent colours, covering the five years of publication. All of them have incorrect information on the title-page. In this example the title-page states July to December 1885, whereas the articles within were actually published August 1885 to January 1886. Contains a mixture of articles on a variety of sports (coarse fishing, deer and boar hunting, fen skating, game shooting, yachting, racing and coursing, together with short biographies and portraits of well-known sportsmen, and a little sporting verse. .

Illustrated with b&w portraits. 5.5" x 8.5". Quarter-bound in black leather, spine worn, marbled paper covered boards, name stamp on endpaper. 41 pp + 240 pp. Twenty four profiles plus articles on pike and carp fishing, hunting badger, boar, otter, rabbit, foxhunting, coaching, deer hunting in Colorado, fish ladders, fishing in Ireland, horse racing, wildfowling, shotgun cartridges, salmon fishing on the Columbia River, sporting poetry, clay target shooting, the gunmakers Boswell, Gibbs and Lancaster, athletics, etc. Very good.