First Edition Hardcover Folio, bound in half green morocco over velvet boards, with steel engraved plate on upper board, spine titled in silver-gilt, decorated slipcase also supplied.
The book consists of 396 pages, all edges silver gilt. Pictorial dust jacket is in very good condition and has some light scratches on the front cover and corners are a bit rubbed. Slipcase shows slight wear and some small marks.
A large and lavish work on gamebird shooting throughout the world. Driven grouse in Scotland, Norfolk partridge, Cornish woodcock and Devon pheasants, gamebird and wildfowl shooting in Holland, Spain, South America, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States from Texas to Alaska.
Profusely illustrated with magnificent photographs by Johnson. There is a stainless steel etching (4" x 4") set into the upper cover; this is a reproduction of a sporting scene by the English Master Engraver - Ken Hunt. It is an international game shooting work, and was marketed to the great and the good of the world's shooting fraternity, with many copies going to the USA, Australia, Spain, Portugal, etc.
Numbered copy of Sponsoring Subscriber's Edition limited to 1,000 copies. This is a (De Luxe) Sponsoring Subscriber's Edition," Limited to 1000 numbered copies, the limitation bookplate, signed by Johnson, Wannenburgh and publisher, Hans-Juergen Queisser. This copy is number (633 / 1000).
It was intended to also publish a trade edition of 4000 copies, but this was never produced. Beautiful pictorial paste-downs and end-papers, overall, both the book and binding is in very good condition, as new.
- Jacket Condition: Very Good
- Binding Condition: Fine
- Overall Condition: Fine
- Size: 317 x 313 mm
- Sold By: Bookdealers cc
- Contact Person: Doron Locketz
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 0114407936
- Preferred Payment Methods: EFT, Payfast, Credit Card
- Trade Associations: South African Bookdealers Association
