Eric Parker; Frank Wallace; Eric Taverner; Various — The Lonsdale Keeper&Apos;S Book

London, Seeley Service & Co, 1938. Cloth. An instructive and illustrated work on game-keeping, part of the Lonsdale Library of sports, edited by Eric Parker. 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&apos. 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. 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. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Very Good Indeed.