Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting ;. By Lt. Col. P. Hawker.
Peter Hawker (1786-1853)
Category
Books
Date
1859
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3085851
Summary
Bibliographic description
Eleventh Edition. with explanatory plates and woodcuts edited by his son Major P W L Hawker. xxviii, 548,[40] p., plates & woodcuts :. ill. ;. 22cm. Binding: Hardback, publisher’s bookcloth with leather spine, gold lettering on spine. Provenance: Bookplate "Antony Gibbs" and "en dios mi amparo y esperanza" with armoured arm holding an axe. Provenance: Insertions - at front of book, cutting from the Field Newspaper on shooting and stalking dated Nov 23 1872 & Sept 15 1894; at page 130 a small picture of a man with gun and dogs (label on back "The Sportsman after Ben Marshall engraved in mezzotint and printed in colour by hand"; half a torn letter at page 146 on Farnborough School headed notepaper dated July 11th from A James.
Makers and roles
Peter Hawker (1786-1853)