Instructions To Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Fifth edition in uncommon pape-backed boards, with original spine paper label. Paper over spine has had some repairs done some time ago. The book is protected in a brown cloth wrapper with leather label; book in wrapper is housed in brown cloth slipcase. xxiv, 456, illustrated with 10 engraved plates, plus woodcuts pages 344-349. Bound in at front is 16 page publisher catalog dated July 1823. Sides and bottom edge untrimmed. Internals remarkably bright and UNfoxed. An almost completely unsophisticated binding and rare thus for this title; most copies on the market are leather-bound. Bookseller ticket for A. Holden, Exeter in upper left corner front pastedown.