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dated 1802 and 1804. All I have seen are dated 1802. The first issue 

 was "printed for the anthor by W. Williams, No. 15, Chancery-lane, 

 London, price Ss., 1802," and the unsold copies were bought by Alex. 

 Hogg and Co., and sent oiit with a new title page, " price 4s., in extra 

 boards." This book is an octavo of 104 pages, with a coloured frontis- 

 piece of an almond tumbler, not, in my opinion, so good a picture of a 

 pigeon as some of those in the treatise of 176.5. The author was Mr. 

 W. P. Windus, a solicitor in London, who was afterwards secretary of 

 the Columbarian Society. The portrait of an almond tumbler in his 

 book is represented as carrying its wings over its tail, but an earlier 



picture of an almond will, if I remember rightly, be found in some of 

 the sporting magazines before 1800, in which the tail is carried over the 

 wings. 



In an impression of the " Almond Tumbler " of 1802, that bears the 

 autograph of Thomas Garle, jun., 1809, who, with his father, was long 

 connected with the Columbarian Society, I found a very interesting 

 document. This document was an invitation to dine with the Colum- 

 barians, to elect officers for the year, and to audit accounts, and is headed 

 by the illustration which I have copied, and is signed by Windus. It 



