James Edmund Harting THE RABBIT 1898 and 12 similar items

THE RABBIT By James Edmund Harting. With A Chapter On, Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. London, New York and Bombay: Longman's Green, and Co., 1898. First edition thus. 1898 date printed to the title page. Ten full-page black-and-white plate illustrations by Archibald Thorburn, G.E. Lodge, S. Alken, and Charles Whymper. A volume in the Fur, Feather, and Fin series edited by E.T. Watson. Comprises ten chapters including a lengthy well-researched, natural history of the rabbit, hunting and shooting, trapping, poaching, cooking, rabbit hawking with the goshawk, and more. An attractive vintage collectible. Light intermittent foxing to the pages, some soil stains to the covers, minute tears to the upper and lower spine edges, else about very good, square and firm in oatmeal colored linen with red titles and detailed brown and gilt illustration by Whymper depicting a hiding rabbit, flying Goshawks and distant hunting men scene to the front cover and with red, gilt and brown titles and rules to the spine, black end-papers; no dust jacket. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT HISTORY BOOKS THANKS!