The Gun at Home and Abroad. Vol. 1-4 Vol. 1: British Game Birds and Wildfowl; Vol. 2: British Deer and Ground Game; Vol. 3: The Big Game of Africa & Europe; Vol. 4: The Big Game of Asia and North America
- Publisher : London & Counties Press Assoc
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : numerous col + b/w plates
Description:
Each volume issued in a limited edition of 950 numbered copies. The first 500 copies of each volume were issued as complete sets. 4 photogravure frontispieces of George V, 59 colour and 5 monochrome plates reproduced from original water-colour drawings specially executed for this work by G.E. Lodge, A. Thorburn, V.R. Balfour-Browne & E. Caldwell, 8 photogravures, 203 half-tone plates, figures and illustrations in text.
Condition
4 vols, large-4to, orig. full morocco, gilt, teg, other edges uncut. Spines very slightly faded. Vg ex-lib. set. From an institutional library with ink stamps to endpapers and verso of plates. Some insect damage to the endpapers only, mostly minor and marginal, but more extensive to vol. 1 (Game Birds). Frontispieces foxed, occasional light foxing elsewhere. All No. 403 of the 500 complete sets