FOREST AND STREAM 
913 
plates have thus erroneously been transposed, 
it is likely that the same mistake is repeated 
in all copies of this edition. 
The editions from 1852 through 1868 are of 
uniform size. The editions following are of 
uniform size, but J4 inch shorter and 1 inch 
narrower than all preceding American edi¬ 
tions. None of them have blind tooled cor¬ 
ner designs. 
12. “Frank Forester’s Field Sports, etc.” 8 vo. 
red cloth, same center emblems. The end 
papers of this edition are brown. 
New York: George E. Woodward, no 
date. 
This edition has the copyright still dated 
1848. It was probably issued soon after the 
edition of 1868. 
13. The same, bound in green cloth. 
14. “Frank Forester’s Field Sports, etc.” 8 vo. 
green cloth. Vol. I blind tooled straight 
lines around borders of covers. Vol. II has 
no blind tooled lines and cloth of a different 
grain. Neither has gilt or blind emblems 
in center. 
New York: Geo. E. Woodward and 
Co.; Orange Judd Company, no date 
(i 873 _?). 
Copyright is dated “1873, By George E. 
Woodward.” I am inclined to believe that 
the slight difference in the bindings of the 
two volumes indicates that the first was is¬ 
sued by Woodward, and the second by Or¬ 
ange Judd. It is possible, however, that each 
volume is one of two different editions, or 
one of two uniform bindings of the same 
edition. 
15. “Frank Forester’s Field Sports, etc.” 8 vo. 
green doth, no center emblems; blind tooled 
scroll design straight across near top and 
bottom of both covers. 
New York: The American News Com¬ 
pany, no date. 
Copyright 1873, By George E. Woodward. 
16. “Frank Forester’s Field Sports, etc.” 8 vo. 
green cloth; no center emblems; end papers 
light gray with figures. 
New York: Excelsior Publishing House, 
no date. 
Copyright 1873, by George C. Woodward. 
This is a very cheap edition, printed on very 
poor paper. Aside from the initial wood- 
cuts of each chapter, it contains no illustra¬ 
tions except one inferior woodcut on page 
3 i- 7 - 
It is not certain which of these two last edi¬ 
tions was issued first, but quite likely they 
were published in the order in which I have 
listed them. 
The above list includes thirteen different edi¬ 
tions of this book, and enumerates four of them 
bound in two colors of cloth. It is quite likely 
that many of the editions were bound in more 
than one color of cloth, particularly those before 
1868. 
No book on field sport written in English has 
passed through so many editions except Gordon 
Cumming’s “Five Years of a Hunter’s Life * 
* * in South Africa,” which passed through 
more than twenty editions. 
It will be observed by those who are interested 
that the second, third, fifth, and seventh editions 
of “Forester’s Field Sports” are not listed. I 
have never seen them, nor have I ever been able 
to obtain any record of them. It is quite pos¬ 
sible that the publishers kept issuing the work 
with the date 1849, and then, without ever hav¬ 
ing put on the title page second or third edition, 
suddenly in 1832 inserted “fourth edition” for 
the purpose of emphasizing the popularity of 
the book. For the same reason fifth or seventh 
editions may never have appeared in the title 
page. The prefaces in all the editions from the 
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each up to the eighth one word is changed. The 
preface of the fourth edition begins: “I have 
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etc.” In the sixth and eighth editions, the only 
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tions of the words “sixth” and “eighth” for 
“fourth.” The word “eighth” is continued in the 
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