GILBERTSON & PAGE. Poachers versus Keepers. An amusing and instructive treatise concerning poachers and their artifices dealing with the many phases of poaching directed against game furred and feathered. Hertford, Gilbertson & Page Ltd., [c.1902]
Small 8vo. Original blue cloth covered boards, gilt lettered to upper cover; pp. vi, 89, [14, advertisements front and back]; gilt faded to upper cover and cloth in places, internally clean.
Third Edition. Following on from the Pheasant Rearer's Manual produced at at earlier date by the same company, Poachers versus Keepers focuses on the eternal struggle between the vigilant keeper of game [limited mostly to pheasants, rabbits and partridges in this instance] and the wily poacher. Written with tongue in cheek, it is filled with anecdotes, advice and good-natured banter on the topic.
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