Great Game Shooting & Practical Taxidermy 



I vol.^ Post 8z'^, Bound in Leather. 2)S. 6d. net. By Post, ^s. gd. 



THE NINTH EDITION OF 



The Sportsman's Handbook 



TO COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND SETTING-UP TROPHIES AND 

 SPECIMENS. TOGETHER WITH A GUIDE TO 



The Hunting Grounds of the World 



ir/TH .M^AXi' ILLUSTRATIOyS 



By ROWLAND WARD, F.Z.S. 



" With this in his portmanteau, no one fond of shooting and collecting need any longer 

 lament his mability to preserve his trophies, since the directions given for skinning and preser\ing 

 animals of all kinds are extremely clear and simple, and rendered all the more intelligible by the 

 wood engravings by which they are accompanied. Quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and 

 insects, are all dealt with in turn, and directions given not merely for skinning them, but also 

 for mounting them, if desired, a year or two (it may be) after they have been procured."'— /?V/a'. 



" Xo one has a better right to speak with authority on questions of taxidermy than Mr. 

 Rowland Ward, whose skill in the art is well known to every one interested in the subject." — 

 Saturday Revieiv. 



"The name of Ward, father and sons, has acquired a world-wide reputation. ... To 

 sportsmen in India this book should prove specially attractive and useful ; it should certainly be 

 in the possession of everj- sportsman and collector." — Calcutta Englishman. 



'■The accumulated experience and trained skill of Mr. Ward and his predecessors first 

 elevated taxidermy to the position of real art. Not only skill, but accurate observation of nature 

 in li\-ing animals have had their result in displaying animal specimens truthfully to life with a 

 beauty all their oivn." 



•' It is nearly thirty years since Mr. Ward gave some of his secrets in artistic preservation to 

 the world in his Sportsman's Haiuibook to Practical Collecting, the ninth edition of which was 

 published only last year. His description of the setting-up artistically of a tiger shows not only 

 technical skill, but great knowledge and refined artistic feeling."— Ct?/////)' Gentleman. 



LONDON : ROWLAND WARD, Limited, 

 ••THE TUXGLE," 167 PICCADILLY, W. 



