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The Lonsdale Keeper's Book
Eric Parker; Frank Wallace; Eric Taverner; Various
1938
Seeley Service & Co : London
8.5" by 5.5"
256pp
SUMMARY
An instructive and illustrated work on game-keeping, part of the Lonsdale Library of sports, edited by Eric Parker.
Illustrated,Publishers' Original Binding,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 1 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Held in the original price-clipped dustwrapper.
This work is Volume XXVI in Lonsdale's Library of sports, games, and pastimes.
'The Lonsdale Keeper's Book' is a comprehensive guide to gamekeeping, with information on hand rearing, patridge's winter feeding, how to rear pheasants in large numbers, whether dry or wet food is better, the rearing and management of wild duck, game shooting, the duties of a river keeper, and more.
With a frontispiece and a further twenty-three plates.
Edited by Eric Parker, who was the sometime editor-in-chief of 'The Field'.
With contributions by various well-known keppers and game farmers, Frank Wallace, and Eric Taverner.
Undated, dated from Copac from copies held at British Library, Cambridge University, and Oxford University.
CONDITION
In the original publisher's cloth binding with the original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper with light edgewear resulting in small closed tears and a little discolouration to the spine. The odd spot to the fore edge. Internally, generally firmly bound though a little strained in places. Pages are bright with scattered spots, heavier to the first and last few pages. Plate facing page 128 is detached but present.
Overall Condition: Very Good Very Good Indeed
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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