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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting.
by Hawker, Lt. Col. P
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826., 1826. Hard Cover. Fifth edition. Octavo, pp. xxiv, 456. Complete with 10 engraved plates, including frontispiece and additional vignette illustrations. Bound in early 19th century half calf and blue marbled paper over boards with blind dog-tooth rolls to corners and spine; gilt spine ornaments and title; marbled edges. Calf rubbed to edges and joints, some light scattered foxing throughout. Contents are complete, tight, square, clean and free from inscriptions or annotations. A Very Good copy. Hawker's highly influential guide on field sports in an attractive contemporary binding. Hawker was one of the "great shots" of his era and his Instructions to Young Sportsmen became one of the most widely read and admired books on sports in the nineteenth century.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10372
- Title
- Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting.
- Author
- Hawker, Lt. Col. P
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.
- Date Published
- 1826
- Keywords
- Sport
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
Biblio member since 2019
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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