SHOOTING LIBRARY. 



" Instructions to Young" Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns 

 and Shooting." By Lieut. -Colonel Peter Hawker. Ninth edition. 

 Published by Longmans, at i is., in 1844. Illustrated by steel 

 plates and woodcuts. The ninth is the best and fullest edition. 

 The last edition was the nth, issued after Colonel Hawker's 

 decease, and edited by his son. This copy I have had, also 

 several others. Very few people have seen the first edition. I 

 once possessed it. It is a very small volume with very large 

 type ; the headings to each section being in black letter. 



Of course, Hawker was out of print long ago. It can, however, 

 generally be bought at IDS. to 125. 6d. I once saw a splendid 

 copy of one of the earlier editions with the plates beautifully 

 coloured. Anything said in praise of Hawker is superfluous. His 

 ideas about game laws are very good in some respects ; in others 

 very severe. 



" The Modern Shooter." By Captain Lacy. Published 1842, 

 by Whittaker and Co., at i is. Illustrated by woodcuts, and one 

 very good steel plate of the author's dogs, Rodney, Bob, and 

 Jerry. This is a very good book, and like Hawker, original, 

 except as regards punt guns and punting. Here Lacy, as the 

 Colonel says, hired Buckle, who spun out his deposition while 

 the Captain took it down. Buckle was an old puntsman of the 

 Colonel's. Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey does not care for the illus- 

 trations, but as for myself, I think them very amusing. Note the 

 one, "Foundation and Elevation." If the pictures do not 

 elucidate the text they enliven it, and the captain's jokes are to 

 the point. 



The book is rather scarce, I think, as I have only seen six 

 copies, four of which have passed through my hands. I consider 

 it well worth los. od., though I have secured copies for less and 

 larger amounts. 



"The Wildfowler." By H. C. Folkard, Esq., originally pub- 

 lished, I believe, by Piper, Stevenson, and Co., at i is., but the 

 latest edition is issued by Longman's, at 125. 6d. 

 The first edition, if I remember, contains some strictures on 

 double-handed punting, which are now omitted. Mr. Folkard claims 

 to be the first person to give a practical account of decoys. The 

 steel plates are very beautiful, but one or two of them have done 



