THORNHILL, Richard Badham. The Shooting Directory. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804.
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THORNHILL, Richard Badham. The Shooting Directory. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. First edition, first issue, with the later cancelled pp. 214-220. These pages were cancelled in the later two issues because ‘the author had been a little too outspoken over a controversy concerning the Manton Patent Breech, that arouse between Mr. Manton and the Duke of Richmond’. Quarto (259 x 210mm). Half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 6 plates, 2 uncoloured engraved plates, 3 folding letterpress tables. (Variable browning throughout). Modern red morocco. Abbey Life 393; Schwerdt II, 258-59. Sold not subject to return.
