Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph

The Book of Duck Decoys

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[by Woodfall & Kinder for] John Van Voorst London 1886 First Edition their Construction, Management, and History. Handcoloured lithograph frontispiece, 13 colour lithograph plates (two folding) and illustrations in the text. Small 4to. [259 x 185 x 27 mm]. x, [ii], 214, [2] pp. Bound in the original blue cloth, the front cover and spine lettered in gilt and blocked in black, black endleaves, black endleaves, untrimmed edges. (Very slightly rubbed). A few trivial spots, but a fine copy. "In launching this Book about Decoys, I hope to supply a want and afford information to those who are interested in this special and peculiar branch of Fowling. To the Naturalist and Wildfowler, as well as to the Topographer and Antiquarian, I chiefly appeal..... That the history of Decoys without some such effort as the present would speedily have been lost, could not fail to be the case, as the old Decoymen die off, and Decoys annually cease to exist. No book of any kind has yet been published on the subject, and lest none should appear the present work has been undertaken" - the Preface. Signature and bookplate of Oliver Collett.

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• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)