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Publicado por The Derrydale Press. Lyon, Mississippi. 1999., 1999
ISBN 10: 156833138XISBN 13: 9781568331386
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Libro
(Paperback, 1999). (1939) 1999 paperback edition. Large 8vo paperback (187 x 268mm). Ppxii,48. Colour plates by Philip Rickman. Covers 5mm (3/16") short of fore-edge - but still a fine unread copy. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. This edition has French-fold card covers which unfortunately fall 3/16" short of the fore-edge. PREVIOUS PRICE £12.95.
Publicado por READ BOOKS, COOKHILL, 2005
Librería: clifford milne books pbfa, Aberdeen, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 8VO. 1ST ED 2005 . DARK GREEN CLOTH . 117 PAGES + ADVERTS + INDEX . FINE PLATES . FINE COPY .
Publicado por Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931
Librería: R.E & G.B Way, NEWMARKET, SUFFO, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Libro
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Pp208, nice copy in damaged dustjacket,
Publicado por Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers). London. 1931., 1931
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
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(Hardcover, 1931). 1931 1st edition. Large 8vo (150 x 241mm). Pp208. Two-colour illustrations by Gilbert Holiday, top-edge gilt. Red buckram, spine titled in gilt. Cloth stained and slightly bumped, slight browning to end-papers and edges. Good, lacks dust-wrapper. Lionel Edwards' copy, his name to end-paper.* This is an interesting and entertaining selection of stories and articles on hunting and horses. Includes some good illustrations. Articles include: The opening meet; The show card; Point-to-pointers; Horse, please; School days; Professor pony; Mode and the Moss-Trooper; Mares' nests; Woolworth horses; A Platonic dialogue; A point of view; A marriage has been arranged. ; Scent lies; The lovely road; Frost and other curses; Potted history. * This copy has a note to the front end-paper, in Edwards' hand, reading, "Lionel Edwards, from Q(?).v. Carl. Christmas 1931." .
Publicado por Country Life Ltd, 1926
Librería: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
HARDCOVER. Condición: GOOD. 1st Edition. 1926. Country Life Ltd. Hardcover. GOOD First Edition. Blue titles. Blue patterned boards and cloth spine. Rough cut page very clean and clear. Light foxing. Writing on front and back endpapers. 9x8.
Publicado por Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936., 1936
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1936 ). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 225mm). Ppxv,284. B/w photographs, colour illustrations by Philip Rickman. Brick red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth rather stained else good copy. Lacks dust-wrapper. "The value of Major Pollard's book, is that he tells those of us who do not know, and those of us who may think we do know, almost everything that need be told about the business, as well as the pleasure, of shooting. If you want to know how to set about taking a shoot, great or small; if you want to know the history and the habits and the variations of the game that you mean to shoot; if you want to know how to rear pheasants, how to feed the chicks on the rearing field, how to look after the poults after they have been put out in the wood, how to manage a day's shoot so as to bring the grown birds over the guns in the best possible manner; how to keep down the always-increasing cost of running a shoot - if you want to know all of these things and many others, you could not possibly do better than read this book, and never let it off your shelf so long as you retain an interest in any of these things." (From the introduction by Guy Pollock). Chapters include:- The choice of a shoot; The gun and ammunition; Pheasants; Partridges; Grouse, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan; Snipe and woodcock; Duck; Ground game; Vermin; The diseases of game birds; Some notes on the rearing of pheasants; The cookery of game. .
Publicado por The Derrydale Press. Lyon, Mississippi. 1993., 1993
ISBN 10: 1127050761ISBN 13: 9781127050765
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Libro
(Hardcover, 1993). (1939) 1993 edition. 4to (195 x 272mm). Ppxii,48. Colour plates of game birds by Philip Rickman, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Colour engraving of pheasants to gilt decorated green faux leather, issued without a dust-wrapper. Limited to 2,500 numbered copies. Slight mark to cover but a near fine copy. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. .
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Publicado por Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., London (1926), 1923
Librería: Bluestem Books, Lincoln, NE, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Green cloth, 122 pages plus ads. Very slight rubbing to just the tips of the corners otherwise a fine, clean and unmarked hardcover.
Publicado por Country Life, Ltd., London, 1926
Librería: sonalsorises, Los angeles, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: Very Good Plus. First Edition. First Edition. Original marbled boards over cloth spine, paper label on spine, very good plus. Interesting cookbook for all types of wild game.
Publicado por Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936., 1936
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1936 ). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 225mm). Ppxv,284. B/w photographs, colour illustrations by Philip Rickman. Brick red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth rubbed and faded, some foxing and use. Good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. "The value of Major Pollard's book, is that he tells those of us who do not know, and those of us who may think we do know, almost everything that need be told about the business, as well as the pleasure, of shooting. If you want to know how to set about taking a shoot, great or small; if you want to know the history and the habits and the variations of the game that you mean to shoot; if you want to know how to rear pheasants, how to feed the chicks on the rearing field, how to look after the poults after they have been put out in the wood, how to manage a day's shoot so as to bring the grown birds over the guns in the best possible manner; how to keep down the always-increasing cost of running a shoot - if you want to know all of these things and many others, you could not possibly do better than read this book, and never let it off your shelf so long as you retain an interest in any of these things." (From the introduction by Guy Pollock). Chapters include:- The choice of a shoot; The gun and ammunition; Pheasants; Partridges; Grouse, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan; Snipe and woodcock; Duck; Ground game; Vermin; The diseases of game birds; Some notes on the rearing of pheasants; The cookery of game. .
Publicado por Country Life Books. Feltham, Middlesex. 1983., 1983
ISBN 10: 0600331547ISBN 13: 9780600331544
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Libro Original o primera edición
Condición: new. (Hardcover, 1983). 1983 1st edition. 4to (190 x 255mm). Pp559. Colour & b/w photographs, b/w line illustrations, bibliography. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cased in dark turquoise boards. Very good in slightly grubby dust-wrapper. Based on Major Pollard's History of Firearms, this is essentially a new and far larger book, containing much material unavailable to Major Pollard. "This definitive work covers the history of the gun work covers the history of the gun from its origins to the present day. Claude Blair, Keeper at theVictoria and Albert Museum, leads a distinguished international team of authors who have brought together the most recent scholarship on the subject." Chapters include; a memoir of Hugh Pollard; early firearms; the sixteenth century; the seventeenth century; the eighteenth century and the end of the flintlock; the percussion system; early breech-loading firearms; early repeating firearms; muzzle-loading revolvers; breech-loading and repeating firearms other than revolvers 1810-70; firearms other than revolvers and automatic pistols 1870-1918; cartridge revolvers down to 1918; automatic pistols down to 1918; general survey of firearms: 1918 to the present day; Scottish firearms; Oriental and Levantine firearms; the manufacture and proof of firearms; firearms accessories; air, spiring-air and gas guns; miniature firearms; bibliography. Contributors include; Claude Blair, Howard L. Blackmore; Fr. Irena Grabowska; Ian V. Hogg; Harold L. Peterson, William Reid, Dr. C.H. Roads, A.W.F. Taylerson, Professor Zdislaw Zygulski, Jr., A.R.E. North. .
Publicado por Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1945., 1945
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
(Hardcover, 1945). (1939) 1945 edition. Large 4to (245 x 305mm). Ppx,48. Colour paintings by Philip Rickman. Red cloth, titled in black to front board, spine untitled. Slight wear and bumps to cloth, some pages slightly foxed. Very good in tanned and frayed dust-wrapper. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. .
Publicado por J.A. Allen & Co. London. 1937., 1937
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
Condición: new. (Hardcover, 1937). (1937) undated J.A. Allen re-issue. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Ppxx,139. B/w photograph plates. red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight browning and use. Very good in used, slightly spine-tanned Eyre and Spottiswode dust-wrapper.* "A practical contribution to its solution, for all hunting people." * The first edition of this book was issued by Eyre & Spottiswode in 1937. This issue has a new title-page (on glazed paper, unlike the rest of the book, including the stub) tipped to the stub of the original, with J.A. Allen & Co. given as the publishers and "(c) Eyre and Spottiswode, London". The dust-wrapper spine states "Eyre & Spottiswode 10s. 6d. net". The rear panel of the d/w has an advertisement for Budgett's Hunting by Scent, "Revised Cheap Edition", at 8s. 6d. The first edition of Hunting by Scent came out in 1933 and the Revised Cheap Edition of this advert was issued in 1937. The presumption must be that this copy of The Mystery of Scent is the 1937 1st edition reissued later on by J.A. Allen with a new title-page. "The object of this book is to suggest a clearer line of thought about the age-old problem of scent. It is in the main a discussion of the relatively complex conditions which control the diffusion of scent, for we only discern scent by its diffusion. The line I have taken is to try to work out a perfectly simple instrument which will tell the hunting man exactly the percentage of chances of scent on any day at any time. It does. .Despite the accuracy of this method of instrumental calculation there are plenty of points in this book which are open to the widest possible range of argument. It is almost impossible to 'prove' anything connected with the physiological side of scent, and the observer will always find an embarassing range of alternative possiblities. .Anyway, this little book is an attempt to bring the scientific side of it rather closer to some modern scientific theories of our own time. Chapters include: The secretion of the scent; The diffusion of scent; The Scentometer; Adverse factors; The secret of scent; Scent and local conditions; How we smell; How hounds smell; Scent in other animals. Appendices are: Relative humidity in air; Simple hygroscopes. Uncommon in a dust-wrapper. .
Publicado por Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936., 1936
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1936 ). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 225mm). Ppxv,284. B/w photographs, colour illustrations by Philip Rickman. Brick red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Price 16s. (Spine stickered 18/-.). Good-plus in foxed and slightly chipped dust-wrapper. "The value of Major Pollard's book, is that he tells those of us who do not know, and those of us who may think we do know, almost everything that need be told about the business, as well as the pleasure, of shooting. If you want to know how to set about taking a shoot, great or small; if you want to know the history and the habits and the variations of the game that you mean to shoot; if you want to know how to rear pheasants, how to feed the chicks on the rearing field, how to look after the poults after they have been put out in the wood, how to manage a day's shoot so as to bring the grown birds over the guns in the best possible manner; how to keep down the always-increasing cost of running a shoot - if you want to know all of these things and many others, you could not possibly do better than read this book, and never let it off your shelf so long as you retain an interest in any of these things." (From the introduction by Guy Pollock). Chapters include:- The choice of a shoot; The gun and ammunition; Pheasants; Partridges; Grouse, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan; Snipe and woodcock; Duck; Ground game; Vermin; The diseases of game birds; Some notes on the rearing of pheasants; The cookery of game. .
Publicado por Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., London, 1923
Librería: Ross & Haines Old Book Co., Hudson, WI, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. First Edition. xvi + 122 pp. + 4 pp. of ads, frontis, b/w illus., tables, index. Bookplate. Green cloth bound hardcover book in v.g. cond., the severly darkened dust wrapper is missing most of the spine altho the title "Shot Guns" near the top is still present, o/w because of the darkening it is poor cond.
Publicado por Country Life, London, 1926
Librería: Janet Clarke Books ABA, Bath, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: ABA
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Country Life, London, 1926. Hardback, 8vo. cloth backed marbled boards, vii, 156pp. fore edge uncut and foxed as usual, corners bumped else a very good clean copy. Containing more than 200 choice alternatives to the everlasting joint. Recipes for the usual game still available such as pheasant, partridge pigeon and grouse, venison, rabbit and hare; together with waterfowl other than duck, salmon, trout and coarse fish.
Publicado por Eyre & Spottiswoode London. 1937., 1937
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1937). 1937 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Ppxx,139. B/w photograph plates. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight lean to spine, slight use. Good copy in slightly frayed and used dust-wrapper. "A practical contribution to its solution, for all hunting people." "The object of this book is to suggest a clearer line of thought about the age-old problem of scent. It is in the main a discussion of the relatively complex conditions which control the diffusion of scent, for we only discern scent by its diffusion. The line I have taken is to try to work out a perfectly simple instrument which will tell the hunting man exactly the percentage of chances of scent on any day at any time. It does. .Despite the accuracy of this method of instrumental calculation there are plenty of points in this book which are open to the widest possible range of argument. It is almost impossible to 'prove' anything connected with the physiological side of scent, and the observer will always find an embarassing range of alternative possiblities. .Anyway, this little book is an attempt to bring the scientific side of it rather closer to some modern scientific theories of our own time. Chapters include: The secretion of the scent; The diffusion of scent; The Scentometer; Adverse factors; The secret of scent; Scent and local conditions; How we smell; How hounds smell; Scent in other animals. Appendices are: Relative humidity in air; Simple hygroscopes. Uncommon in a dust-wrapper. .
Publicado por Country Life, Ltd., London, 1926
Librería: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Libro
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition Stated. In marbled 3/4 boards with blue linen spine; paper label on spine and front panel. A crisp, clean copy of this marvelous vintage cookbook using wild game - partridge, pheasant, gouse, woodcock, pigeon, venison, salmon, trout etc.
Publicado por Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936., 1936
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1936 ). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 225mm). Ppxv,284. B/w photographs, colour illustrations by Philip Rickman. Brick red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Price 16s. (Spine stickered 18/-.). A very good copy in a complete, slightly browned dust-wrapper. "The value of Major Pollard's book, is that he tells those of us who do not know, and those of us who may think we do know, almost everything that need be told about the business, as well as the pleasure, of shooting. If you want to know how to set about taking a shoot, great or small; if you want to know the history and the habits and the variations of the game that you mean to shoot; if you want to know how to rear pheasants, how to feed the chicks on the rearing field, how to look after the poults after they have been put out in the wood, how to manage a day's shoot so as to bring the grown birds over the guns in the best possible manner; how to keep down the always-increasing cost of running a shoot - if you want to know all of these things and many others, you could not possibly do better than read this book, and never let it off your shelf so long as you retain an interest in any of these things." (From the introduction by Guy Pollock). Chapters include:- The choice of a shoot; The gun and ammunition; Pheasants; Partridges; Grouse, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan; Snipe and woodcock; Duck; Ground game; Vermin; The diseases of game birds; Some notes on the rearing of pheasants; The cookery of game. .
Publicado por London Country Life 1926, 1926
Librería: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
FIRST EDITION Small 4to., quarter bound in blue cloth with marbled paper-covered boards and paper title labels to spine and upper board, in unclipped dust jacket. [vii] + 155pp, indexed. Remains of faint erased inscription to ffep. Light foxing to foredge. Edges of boards lightly rubbed. Paper title labels somewhat foxed. Dust jacket somewhat soiled and damaged - please see photos. Overall VG in Good, Sound dust jacket. (Shelf 200) ** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
1st Edn,. xv 284 pages, illustrated with 6 colour plates by Phillip Rickman and 8 half tone plates from photographs. Personal inscription to verso of the front blank. Publishers red cloth binding in DJ a very good copy with no loss to the DJ. Covers the choice of a shoot, the guns and ammunition all game vermin, game bird rearing and disease. Chute 525.
Publicado por Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1939., 1939
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1939). 1939 1st edition. Large 4to (260 x 325mm). Ppx,48. Colour paintings by Philip Rickman. Pale red paper-covered boards with tan cloth spine, paper label titled in black on upper board, spine titled in black. A little foxing to edges and end-papers, occasional foxing internally but a very good copy in a very good dust-wrapper just slightly chipped at the top and bottom of spine. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. .
Publicado por Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1930., 1930
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1930 ). 1930 1st edition. Large 4to (222 x 290mm). Ppx,183. Colour paintings, b/w illustrations by Philip Rickman & H.Frank Wallace, rough-cut pages. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fading and staining to slight shaken spine, staining to boards, edges and end-papers browned. Good only. Comprehensive guide to British game shooting and gamekeeping with many goodcoloured plates. Appendices including ageing and sexing of game, useful tree and shrub species for coverts and details of ammunition. .
Publicado por Country Life. London. 1928., 1928
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1928). 1928 1st edition - De Luxe issue. 4to (255 x 320mm). Ppviii,87. Colour plates & b/w illustrations by Frank Southgate. Quarter vellum / paper-covered boards. #800 of 950 numbered copies. Quite rubbed but a very good copy. Many colour and b/w plates of paintings by Frank Southgate, and a very readable text by Pollard. Chapters include: Prelude; Wild geese; Duck; Duck shooting; Waders; Game birds; Snipe and woodcock; Vermin and various. .
Publicado por Country Life. London. 1928., 1928
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1928). 1928 1st edition - De Luxe issue. 4to (255 x 320mm). Ppviii,87. Colour plates & b/w illustrations by Frank Southgate. Quarter vellum / paper-covered boards. #845 of 950 numbered copies. Some foxing but but a very good copy. Many colour and b/w plates of paintings by Frank Southgate, and a very readable text by Pollard. Chapters include: Prelude; Wild geese; Duck; Duck shooting; Waders; Game birds; Snipe and woodcock; Vermin and various. .
Publicado por Country Life, Ltd. London.,1926, 1926
Librería: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(8.5 x 7 inches). Decorated initial letters to each chapter. A very good copy in a fine early binding by Bumpus of London. Half tan calf, spine with raised bands and twin light and dark brown labels, gilt. Marbled paper on boards.Circular brown calf label, with owners initials, on front board.Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed.Previous owners small neat inscription "C.M.H from K.M.H" on front blank endpaper. Some minor rubbing to extremities but overall a very good copy of this interesting book. In the introduction the author reveals his thoughts on dining. "Really intense and progressive people count the calories in carrots and the vitamins in veal and advise us to live on raw cabbage. This book is not for them, but for the bad lots who openly admit that they like the pleasures of the table and who enjoy life".: