ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). 1985 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Pp240. B/w photographs and illustrations. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Geoffrey Boothroyd was a frequent contributor to The Shooting Times over decades. "For this, the first of two books on the shotgun, a selection has been chosen from well over 800 articles dealing with the history and development of the sporting shotgun." Most of the photographs are the author's own. Chapters include: Early history - the flintlock perfected, the detonator, early breechloaders, successes and failures, the breechloader perfected, new ideas, repeating shotguns; Flint guns - hammerless flintlock, tin box gun; The percussion gun - more about Forsyth and his lock, percussion locks, the conversion, a converted Manton, Scott percussion shotgun, Charles Jones patent locks, William Greener's muzzle loader, a late muzzle loader; Shooting the muzzle loading shotgun; Early breechloaders - the pinfire; Lefaucheux - modified Lefaucheux; After Lefaucheux - a Purdey pinfire, the Adams pinfire, , those cunning craftsmen, the lock fast action, theWestley Richards pinfire, the Jones action, a lump to each barrel, sliding barrels, a sliding Egg, slide-forward barrels, Rees L. Lloyd of Belper, pinfires are fun, Gasquoine & Dyson of Manchester, the Birmingham gun trade in 1868, the central-fire hammer breechloader; Miscellany - Schneider of Paris, central fire conversions, the Westley Richards patents, a double double pinfire, odds and ends, Charles Lancaster's breechloader, the Bacon breechloader, Pape of Newcastle, Pape's extractor system, the Purdey bolt, Wiggan & Elliott shotgun, self-cocking hammer guns, Perkes' patent self-cocking guns, Stephen Grant sidelever, Stephen Grant underlever, hammers, Chassepot shotgun, a pair of Lancasters, H. Holland, Holland & Holland Paradox No. 15629, tracing a gunmaker. .

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Title: THE SHOTGUN: HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. By Geoffrey Boothroyd.
Publisher: A & C Black. London. 1985
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0713655518
ISBN 13: 9780713655513
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: new

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