THE LARGE GAME

428 pages, coloured map, half title page with sub-title ROUGH NOTES ON THE LARGE GAME, chromolithographic frontispiece and title page vignette, library ownership mark embossed on title page, 12 tinted plates, many wood engraved illustrations, attractive recent full green morocco, raised bands with blind tooling and titled gilt on spine, the plate entitled “perhaps the most beautiful of all the antelopes is the nyala” is bound in opposite page 372, not page 378 as indicated in the list of illustrations, some occasional foxing in the text, top edge gilt, a very good copy.

A SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY volume 2 page 105. Mendelssohn (Sidney) SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY, volume 1 page 487. ‘The author hunted in Swaziland, Zululand and Tongaland. There are nine chapters on buffalo, rhinos, eland, lions, elephants, leopards and antelopes, and articles devoted to the description of "Hunting with dogs" and "Game Birds of the country".'

Czech (Kenneth)AN ANNOTATED BIBILIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS revised edition 2011, pages 85 -86 'While the title suggests that this is more of a scientific title, most of the text revolves around Drummond's sporting adventures from 1868 to 1872. There are long chapters describing his hunting experiences after buffalo, eland, lion, elephant, rhinoceros, and leopard with attendant narrative on various antelope and on hunting with dogs. Though he bagged a number of elephant, he was concerned that continued hunting would extirpate the animal "merely for the purpose of supplying Europe with ivory ornaments and billiard-balls...." This work is written in a lively style with unique illustrations'.