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425. NATIONAL SPORTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. John Lawrence 

 and Henry Alken. Descriptions in English and French 

 of a series of coloured illustrations. London, 1821. 

 Folio. 



426. SPORTSMAN'S PROGRESS, a poem descriptive of the 

 pleasures derived from field sports. Represented from 

 2nd edition of Scott's " British Field Sports." London, 

 1820. 



427. SHOOTING ON THE THAMES. J. Hassell. This is 

 contained in a scarce little book called " Excursions 

 of Pleasure and Sports on the Thames." A series of 

 aqua-tint illustrations. Simpkin, London, 1823. 

 12mo, pp. iii, 191 ; coloured engravings. 



428. SHOOTING. Henry Alken. Coloured Plates caricatur- 

 ing the sport. Oblong folio. McClean, Haymarket, 

 London, 1824 (re-issue?). 



429. SPORTSMAN'S COMPANION. Songs. J. Pitts, London, 

 1825. S. sh., folio. 



430. SPORTSMAN'S COMPANION or Gamekeeper's Account 

 Book. Chelmsford, 1827. 8vo. 



431. OBSERVATIONS, on the manufacture of Firearms for 

 military purposes, on the number supplied from 

 Birmingham to the British Government during the 

 late War, on the proof to which barrels are subjected, 

 and on the Proof House, together with some remarks 

 upon the inexpediency of the Ordnance Department 

 fabricating small arms, and upon the obstacles to the 

 free export of arms. [S. .King.] An anonymous 

 publication, evidently the work of a Birmingham fire- 

 arms merchant, full of statistics relative to the firearms 

 trade of this country. Longman, London. J. Drake, 

 Birmingham, 1829. 8vo, pamphlet, 3 parts. 



432. ADVENTURES IN RIFLE BRIGADE in the Peninsula, 

 France, and Netherlands, from 1809 to 1815. John 



