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POLLARD, Hugh Bertie Campbell. The Gun Room Guide, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930. 4° (290 x 220mm). 14 mounted coloured plates by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace, illustrations. Original vellum-backed buckram gilt, top edges gilt (corners a little bumped). Provenance: H. B. Turner (signature on front free endpaper). NUMBER 92 OF 225 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
With 4 other illustrated natural history and sporting works in 6 volumes, R. S. Surtees' Handley Cross (London, [n.d.], 2 vols., illustrated by Cecil Aldin, signed, limited edition), Henry Eliot Howard's The British Warblers (London, 1907-14, 2 vols., half morocco gilt), E. J. Detmold's Fabre's Book of Insects (New York, 1936, fifth printing) and A. Croxton Smith's Sporting Dogs (London, 1938, illustrated by G. Vernon Stokes, signed limited large paper edition). (7)
With 4 other illustrated natural history and sporting works in 6 volumes, R. S. Surtees' Handley Cross (London, [n.d.], 2 vols., illustrated by Cecil Aldin, signed, limited edition), Henry Eliot Howard's The British Warblers (London, 1907-14, 2 vols., half morocco gilt), E. J. Detmold's Fabre's Book of Insects (New York, 1936, fifth printing) and A. Croxton Smith's Sporting Dogs (London, 1938, illustrated by G. Vernon Stokes, signed limited large paper edition). (7)
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