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180x110mm (7"x4½"). A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON CHIMNEYS. Edinburgh: Printed for C. Elliot. Sold, at London, by T. Cadell. MDCCLXXVI. First Edition. ppVII(1)172 followed by blank leaf; with folding plate on which 18 figures. Half-title faintly speckled. Final five leaves of text (pages 163-172) faintly toned and lightly & mainly sparsely spotted. Plate with some light offsetting from text on parts of both recto and verso, and with closed tear of length about 25mm from inner edge intruding by some 3mm into Fig. 5 but with minimal effect; free section of inner edge below tear furled, though well away from print. VERY GOOD clean copy. THE SHOOTER'S GUIDE; or Complete Sportsman's Companion: Containing a Compendious View of The Game Laws; a Description of the Various Kinds of Dogs, and the Best Mode of Breeding, Rearing, and Training them; with an Account of the Diseases to which they are liable, and the Best Methods of Cure. To which are added, Directions for Grouse, Partridge, Pheasant, Woodcock, Snipe, Hare, and Wild Duck Shooting; Particular Instructions for the Young Sportsman; and much Miscellaneous Information on the Choice of Guns, Gunpowder, Shot, &c. &c. London: Printed for John Booth, Duke Street, Portland Place; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 1820. Sixth Edition, Enlarged and Improved. ppX,304 including single blank preliminary leaf. With single-page list of technical terms, and two-page list of gunmakers - all but one of London, the exception Ryan and Watson of Birmingham. Of four plates including frontispiece, that of Wild Duck Shooting replaced by publishers with Woodcock Shooting. Frontispiece toned, the margins of which also quite densely spotted; verso of preceding preliminary leaf patchily and less deeply toned. Title-page patchily toned, more deeply so where offsetting from frontispiece; upper outer corner snipped, no loss of print. Plate opposite page 150 spotted, mainly in margins; pages 150 & 151 patchily toned and lightly spotted as a result. Loss at upper outer corner of one leaf - pages 149/150 - confined to margins; corresponding area at corner of page 148 toned. Contents otherwise clean and tight. GOOD copy. Later 19th century half speckled leather. Smooth spine with titles in gilt on two red leather labels, with decorative gilt compartment borders, and modest gilt decorations. Marbled paper-covered boards. Plain white endpapers. Head and foot of spine, hinges, and tips of outer corners of boards very lightly rubbed; lower outer corner of rear board inwards-curled, lower outer corner of front board slightly so. Edges of text-blocks blue-speckled; top edges a little darkened, other edges a little toned. Binding holding firmly and of pleasing appearance. Contents of both volumes generally clean and tight. Overall condition VERY GOOD. Seller Inventory # 27646
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