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The Shooter's Guide; Or, Complete Sportsman's Companion: Containing Instructions for the Attainment of the Art of Shooting Flying; with Directions for the Choice of a Fowling Piece, and an Ample Description of the Various Kinds of Dogs for the Gun, and th by Johnson, T.B. [Thomas, B. pseud.]
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 765
- Edition: Eighth edition enlarged and improved.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: John Booth,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1826.
- Pages: [viii], 321, [3] pp. ads
Description
London: : John Booth, , 1826. . Eighth edition enlarged and improved. . 8vo, . Illustrated with frontispiece and 4 engraved plates after Howitt. rebound in cloth backed marbled boards. Hinge reinforced at frontis, titlepage evenly browned & trimmed to lower margin, light offsetting to plates, otherwise very good. General directions on shooting techniques, dress, equipment, etc, including information on sporting dogs such as Pointers, Setters and Springers including canine diseases etc, Followed by game laws in Scotland & England, technical terms, and a list of gunsmiths.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
Marbled boards : A hardcover book with a decorative, multi-colored paper on the outside covering.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
rebound : A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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