96 Modem English Books. 



and the want of work at home. Single sheet folio. 

 Printed 1710. 



1050. GUN TRADE. Pamphlets. A number of pamphlets, 

 reprints of newspaper articles, correspondence, etc., 

 relating to the firearms trade of Birmingham, circa 

 1860, are conserved in the Birmingham Reference 

 Library. Catalogue No. 60394. 



1051. GUN TRADE. The Firearms Industry of Birming- 

 ham. An article contributed by J. D. Goodman to 

 the Handbook of Birmingham Manufactures, edited 

 by S. Timmins, 1866. 8vo. 



1052. GUNMAKER OF Moscow. S. Cobb. A Novel. New 

 York. 16mo, SI. 



1053. GUNMAKER OF Moscow. This is the title of a 

 costume play, temp. Peter the Great, in French's 

 Acting Edition. Several musical pieces bear the same 

 title. 



1054. PROOF ACTS. The Acts of Parliament relating to 

 the proving of firearms are private acts, not public 

 statutes ; and the only complete copies known to the 

 compiler are conserved in the Reference Library at 

 Birmingham. They are: the Acts of 1813 and 1815, 

 Catalogue No. 17720; the Act of 1855, Cat. No. 

 17904; the Act of 1867, Cat. No. 34964; the Act of 

 1868, Cat. No. 17953. Under the heading of "Gun 

 Trade " in the same catalogue there will be found a 

 reference to the " New Rules of Proof " adopted in 

 1888, and to copies of the Proof House Annual 

 Reports since 1888. See also under "Gun Trade," 

 and numerous articles in The Sporting Goods Review, 

 vols. i. vi. 



1055. PROOF HOUSE. The present proof company the 

 bane of the Gun Trade : a letter addressed to the 

 masters and journeymen gunmakers of the kingdom. 

 By William Greener, Ass. Inst. C.E. A pamphlet in- 



