Lot 715: SHOOTING -- HAWKER, Peter (1786-1853). Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to

SHOOTING -- HAWKER, Peter (1786-1853). Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting. London: Longman, 1824. 8° (252 x 154mm). 10 plates including 4 hand-coloured. (Occasional spotting.) UNCUT IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, printed title label on spine (rubbed, spine partially detached, inner hinges cracked). Third edition. Chute 286: 'very scarce'; Schwerdt I, p.235: 'most complete edition'.

GOODHALL, Walter. The Young Sportsman's Pocket Companion. London: J. Bailey, [n.d.]. 12° (189 x 108mm). Hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece, woodcuts in text. (Some soiling and short tears.) Modern boards, uncut. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1443). NOT RECORDED IN COPAC. Schwerdt I, p.211; cf. Chute 244.

With 14 other works including: Payne-Gallwey's Letters to Young Shooters (1892-96, 3 vols.); his edition of The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker (1893, 2 vols.); and the Schwerdt copies of The Shooter's Hand-Book (Edinburgh, 1841); Hints to Grown Sportsmen (1832); T.B. Johnson's The Shooter's Preceptor (n.d.); and the same author's The Gamekeeper's Directory (1851). (16)

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