With Flashlight and Rifle

Published by London Hutchinson and Co. 1906. Good+. Publishers emblematic green cloth, top edge gilt. Foxing to page edges and endpapers, book plate to front paste down and long gift inscription to fep, followed by a few pencil annotations throughout. Small dirt mark to half-title page. 782pp. Size: 8vo. 9 3/4". 1st edition.1906.

Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds" (from the introduction). The photographs are altogether an amazing collection, portraying a wide variety of creatures in their natural habitats, including even nighttime predators in mid-pounce. With Schillings highly readable prose, this is altogether an informative and thoughtful work.