Instructions To Young Sportsmen In All That Related To Guns And Shooting P. Lt Col. Hawker
1826. 5th Edition. 456 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Full title: Instructions To Young Sportsmen In All That Related To Guns And Shooting. Medium cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards and binding to be loose. However, boards and pages throughout remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to page edges throughout, text remains unaffected. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper and title page. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Light tanning to spine and edges. Heavy tears to leather to spine edges. Wear marks overall.