FOREST AND STREAM 
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THE WORKS OF FRANK FORESTER 
A FURTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE FAMOUS SPORTS¬ 
MAN'S WRITINGS, CONTRIBUTED BY CHARLES SHELDON 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
An error occurred in my bibliography of 
Frank Forester’s “Field Sports,” recorded 
in your April number. In the collation of 
Volume I of the edition of 1849, the front¬ 
ispiece should have been (Ruffed Grouse ) 
instead of “Wild Turkey.” My record 
would have been more complete if I had 
added that “Late Burgess, Stringer and 
Co., 222 Broadway,” is printed in small 
type, bracketed under the imprint before 
the date. 
The number of letters I have received 
indicates a wide interest in Forester’s 
works. Additional information has been 
received and I am encouraged to record 
the bibliography of some other popular 
books. 
I have since obtained a copy of the “Field 
Sports” with the imprint “American News 
Company” which differs from the binding 
of that listed as No. 15 in my former list. 
It is bound in cloth of a darker shade of 
green, the border tooling is straight lines 
instead of a scroll, and at the bottom of 
the back “The American News Company” 
is printed in gilt letters, which do not 
appear in the other copy. Imprint of Vol. 
I: “The American News Company,” that 
of Vol. II: “Excelsior Publishing House.” 
Both volumes are uniform and have good 
paper, the same as preceding editions. The 
following edition (No. 16) has “Excelsior 
Pub. House” in gilt at bottom of backs. 
At the bottom of backs of both volumes of 
this edition (15A), is “American News 
Company.” This is clearly an edition, evi¬ 
dently the first issued by the American 
News Company, published before No. 16 
of my list. 
While examining my editions of “The 
Young Sportsman’s Manual” I found in 
the W. A. Townsend edition of 1864 leaves 
of advertisement listing the 1864 edition 
of the “Field Sports” (No. 9 of my list), 
as follows: 
“Tinted paper, $6.00; 
“half calf, antique or extra gilt, $9.00; 
“half morocco, gilt tops, $9.00.” 
Another advertisement of the “Field 
Sports” occurs at the end of “The Young 
Sportsman’s Manual” of 1868, which gives 
the same bindings, but the prices have been 
advanced respectively to $7.50, $11.00 and 
$10.50. This refers to No. 11 of my list. 
Therefore, the work was issued with these 
bindings in 1864, 1866 and 1868. 
The following variations in the color of 
the cloth bindings have been given me by 
correspondents: 
First American edition, 1849 (No. 2 of 
my list), olive green cloth. 
Sixth edition (No. 6 of my list), red 
cloth. A purchaser’s name written in the 
fly leaf “1856” indicates this was issued on 
or before that date. 
The edition of i860 (No. 8 of my list), 
green cloth. 
W. A. Townsend and Adams editions,. 
r868 (No. n of my list), red cloth. 
Bibliography of “The Complete Manual 
for Young Sportsmen.” 
Except in one case as noted, the follow¬ 
ing editions of this work are in my li¬ 
brary. All but the Woodward edition were 
copyrighted by Stringer and Townsend. 
1. “The Complete Manual for Young 
Sportsmen: with directions for handling 
the gun, rifle, and the rod; the art of 
shooting on the wing; the breaking, man¬ 
agement, and hunting of the dog; the 
varieties and habits of game; river, lake, 
and sea fishing, etc., etc., etc. Prepared 
for the instruction and use of the youth 
of America. By Frank Forester, author 
of * * * (three works cited) * * 
* etc., etc., etc. 
New York: Stringer and Town¬ 
send, 222 Broadway, 1856.” 
12 mo. olive green cloth. Back gilt tooled 
with scroll enclosing powder flask, reel, 
and dragon fly at bottom, gun and rod 
crossed in center below title; in center of 
front cover is gilt design of gun, rod. 
creel, and two dead ducks, set in sugges¬ 
tive landscape, surrounded by blind tooled 
scroll with elaborate blind tooled designs 
as follows: upper left corner, two anglers 
fishing; upper right corner, two hunters 
and dog hunting; lower left corner, bob 
white; lower right corner, stag’s head. 
On center of top is head of hunting dog, 
on center of bottom, head of fox; left 
center of cover apparently a woodcock, 
right center apparently a duck; all en¬ 
closed in scrolls with appropriate land¬ 
scape background; the back cover is a 
duplicate, except that all the tooling is 
blind. 
Collation: Two blank leaves; tinted 
frontispiece; tinted engraved title with¬ 
out date; pp. i-xvi include, title, copy¬ 
right, advertisement (preface) ; contents, 
list of illustrations (57) ; pp. 17-480 (in¬ 
cluding appendices A-C) ; 2 blank leaves. 
2. Same, bound in dark blue cloth, all the 
tooling on back and both covers full gilt. 
Gilt edges. This makes a most pleasing 
binding. 
The end papers of these two copies are 
rich yellow. Those of the following copies 
are very light yellow. 
3. “The Complete Manual, etc. * * * 
1857.” 12 mo. red cloth, gilt edges. Tool¬ 
ing same as (1), collation the same. 
4. The same, bound in green cloth. 
5. “The Complete Manual, etc. * * * 
New York: W. A. Townsend & Company, 
1859.” 
12 mo. dark blue cloth, tooling and colla¬ 
tion same as those of preceding. 
6. The.same, bound in red (half roan) 
cloth. (Not in my library.) 
The following three editions are'3-16 of 
an inch longer and wider than preceding 
editions. 
7. “The Complete Manual, etc. * * * 
New York: W. A. Townsend, publisher, 
1864.” 
12 mo. red cloth, tooling on covers is 
same as that of preceding editions, ex¬ 
cept that center designs on covers, and 
all blind tooled designs, are omitted, as 
are also the similar blind tooled lines 
and scrolling. At the bottom of back is 
“W. A. Townsend” in gilt letters. 
Collation the same through page 480. Ap¬ 
pendix D is added including pp. 481-482. 
At the back are eight pages of advertis¬ 
ing : “Descriptive catalogue of * * * 
natural sports and natural history. Pub¬ 
lished by W. A. Townsend;” 3 blank 
leaves. This descriptive catalogue adver¬ 
tises “The Complete Manual, etc.,” as 
follows: One vol. crown, 8 vo. tinted 
paper, beveled boards, green and scarlet 
cloth, gilt sides, $2.50. Full gilt sides 
and edges, $2.75. Half calf extra or 
antique, $3.50.” My copy is bound in 
the “scarlet” cloth. 
8. “The Complete Manual, etc. * * * 
New York: W. A. Townsend and Adams, 
'1868.” 12 mo. reddish yellow cloth. All 
tooling same as preceding edition. “W. 
A. Townsend and Adams” in gilt letters 
at bottom of back. 
Collation the same as that of preceding 
edition through page 482; at end are 
sixteen pages of advertisement: “Attrac¬ 
tive and standard works published by 
W. A. Townsend and Adams, No. 434 
Broome St., New York;” 3 blank leaves. 
This advertised list includes “The Com¬ 
plete Manual, etc.,” offered for sale in 
exactly the same styles of bindings as 
those in W. A. Townsend’s list in the 
preceding edition, but the price has been 
advanced respectively to $3.00; $4.00 and 
$5.00. 
It will be noticed that the yellow cloth 
binding of my copy is not advertised. 
9. “The Complete Manual, etc. * * * 
Revised edition. New York: George E. 
Woodward, 191 Broadway” (n. d.). 
12 mo. green cloth, same tooling on back, 
but “George E. Woodward” in gilt letter* 
at bottom. No tooling on covers. 
Except that copyright is “George E. 
Woodward, 1873,” the collation is the 
same through page 475 as that of the 
preceding edition; “appendix,” pp. 476;^ 
477 ; blank; 1 blank leaf. This edition 
has been “revised” only by excluding all 
appendices of former editions except ap¬ 
pendix C, and also deliberately leaving 
out the only full page illustration of a 
“plate of trout flies” opposite page 360, 
which is included in all other editions and 
in the list of illustrations of this one. 
My copy of this edition contains bound 
in between pages viii and ix two small 
leaves advertising: “Practical Publica¬ 
tions of Geo. E. Woodward” for sale by 
“Orange, Judd and Co., Publishers, 245 
Broadway.” This list contains this edi¬ 
tion, price $3.00. 
Bibliography of “American Game in Its 
Seasons.” 
The following editions are in my library. 
All have yellow end papers: 
1. “American Game in Its Seasons. By 
Henry William Herbert, author of * * 
* (five works cited) * * * etc., etc. 
Illustrated from nature, and on wood, by 
the author. 
New York: Charles Scribner, 145 
Nassau Street, 1853.” 
12 mo. red cloth. Same blind tooling on 
both covers as that on the covers of the 
1864 edition of “The Complete Manual, 
etc.” But this scroll blind tooling sur¬ 
rounds a suggestive landscape with three 
bob whites all gilt tooled in center of 
front cover, and the same design blind 
tooled in center of back cover. Gilt 
tooled on the back are the surface of the 
ground near bottom, a tall slender tree 
rising from it, the branches extending 
to the top enclosing the title, a gun lean- 
