This classic country book was first published in 1910 during the heyday of the ground sporting estates of England. This edition of 'A Gamekeeper's Notebook' with an introduction by the late John Humphreys provides an absorbing account of the keeper's daily life and worth month-by-month through the seasons. It reveals the secrets of the trade, the ways of the pheasant and the stoat, the hare and the fox, the badger and the crow, as well as the methods of the night poacher, with long net and snare. It is one of the most ...
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This classic country book was first published in 1910 during the heyday of the ground sporting estates of England. This edition of 'A Gamekeeper's Notebook' with an introduction by the late John Humphreys provides an absorbing account of the keeper's daily life and worth month-by-month through the seasons. It reveals the secrets of the trade, the ways of the pheasant and the stoat, the hare and the fox, the badger and the crow, as well as the methods of the night poacher, with long net and snare. It is one of the most authoritative books of its kind ever produced.
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Facsimile of the 1910 edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), xvi, 307pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. Light thumbing of the preliminary pages, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 1900318164.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.