Author: SKINNER, J[ohn] S[tuart]
Title: The Dog and the Sportsman. Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases, Etc. Etc. of Dogs, and an Account of the Different Kinds of Game, with Their Habits. Also Hints to Shooters, with Various Useful Recipes, Etc. Etc.
Publication: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845
Edition: First Edition
Description: 12mo (18cm). Publisher's blind-embossed cloth, titles and pictorial device in gilt to spine; engraved extra-title; xvi,[17]-224pp; frontispiece + 4 unnumbered leaves of plates. A somewhat shaken and worn copy. Spine cloth slightly frayed at head and heel; front hinge is partially broken at half-title; some evidence of field use, including occasional marginal staining to text in the chapter on sheep dogs. A complete and Good copy in the original publisher's binding. RILING 553. HENDERSON (Early American Sport) p.162.
Seller ID: 52495
Subject: Sports & Pastimes