Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting. Sixth Edition, Corrected, enlarged, and Improved; With Explanatory Notes and Wood Cuts.

Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting. Sixth Edition, Corrected, enlarged, and Improved; With Explanatory Notes and Wood Cuts.

Author: Hawker, Lt. Col. P. (24 November 1786 – 7 August 1853)

8vo.(5.25" x 8.25") 1830. Hawker, Lt. Col. P. London. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. Quarter brown calf with small corners over marbled boards. Brown binders cloth tape spine. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed. Covers scuffed, scraped. Abridgment of the New Game Laws; with observations and suggestions for their improvement.

From Wiki: From Wiki: Colonel Peter Hawker (24 November 1786 – 7 August 1853) was a celebrated diarist and author, and a shooting sportsman accounted one of the "great shots" of the 19th century. His sporting exploits were widely followed and on occasion considered worth reporting in The Times. Hawker is best known today for his published works on the sporting activities of shooting, wildfowling and fishing. Hawker published his "Advice to Young Sportsmen" in 1814, a popular work with nine impressions in his lifetime, the latest paper edition appearing in 1975. Forty years after Hawker's death, an Australian book reviewer stated, "Probably no book on the subject of sport ever enjoyed so wide or so long sustained a popularity as the Instructions to Young Sportsmen". Hawker kept a regular diary which contains observations of Europe before and after the Napoleonic period and of wild-fowling, game-bird shooting and detailed hunting techniques and conditions prevalent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His diary, printed in an abridged form in two volumes, became a popular work. The most recent paper edition appeared in 1988. Hawker also published an originally anonymous memoir of the Peninsula War.

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