Hugh B. C. Pollard — The Gun Room Guide

Boston, New York and London, Houghton Mifflin Company and Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1930. First edition. Leather. Beautifully illustrated with full colour plates, this is a signed Limited Edition copy of Hugh Pollard's celebration of game shooting. The first edition of this signed Limited Edition work from Hugh Pollard, a British firearms expert and journalist known for his intelligence work during the Irish War of Independence. This copy is number 3A of seventy-five copies reserved for sale in the United States of America, and is signed by Pollard to the limitation page.Illustrated with fourteen full colour plates depicting birds and deer, from artists Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace, each retaining their original captioned tissue guard. Collated, complete.Discussing recent developments in customs and traditions when it comes to shooting, Pollard explains that 'the fundamental essence of the sport has not changed, but in our own time we have seen changes in detail and in practice' that will be discussed in the work.With chapters dedicated to ammunition, the gun, the choice of a shoot, the cookery of game and diseases of game birds, this is a lovely copy of a beautifully illustrated and informative study of the sport of shooting. In the publisher's original quarter vellum binding, with cloth covered boards. Light discolouration to vellum, with minor rubbing to cloth of rear board. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Signed and numbered by author to limitation page. Pages clean and bright, with plates retaining their original captioned tissue guard. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Philip Rickman; H. Frank Wallace. Very Good Indeed .