Buy this book on-line TRENCH, CHARLES CHENEVIX: : THE SHOOTER AND HIS GUNLONDON.FARM JOURNALS LTD.,1969.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour illustrated+b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Most of the creasing,with some minimum rubbing to corners+head of spine/back,is to top edges.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - but generally clean;
contents bright,tight and clean.Clean, publisher's original,plain tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xpp+1-120pp [paginated]
includes dedication,acknowledgements, contents+illustrations lists,a foreword,9 chapters,profuse b/w drawing by Brian Walker,2 b/w cartoons by Thelwell,b/w photographs by Terry Brown throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and 2pp blanks to rear.
In this book Charles Chenevix Trench,a lifelong sportsman,dispels the idea that shooting is a sport for the rich or the privileged.He shows that almost anyone can
shoot whether his quarry be pheasant on a
keepered estate costing some £3 each,or wild fowl and pigeon setting him back no more than the price of his licence and cartridges.The author talks sensibly and helpfully about the shooter's equipment, his handling of a gun,the tactics of shooting and the niceties of shooting behaviour.He also gives full details of methods of organising shoots on three contrasting levels of cost; and finally gives the modern reader an account of the history of the gun and shoots from the earliest days down to the present.
The author is himself secretary of a farmer's rough shoot,hunts with the Mendip
Farmers and is also a fisherman - the subject of another book in this series.He has also written 'The Poacher and the Squire',a history of English poaching and game preserving.
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