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Title: The Badminton Library: Shooting - Field and Covert [&] Moor and Marsh. Four Volumes. Author: Walsingham, Lord & Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph Place: London Publisher: Longmans Green and Co Date: Various dates Description: 4 volumes. Illustrated with plates and text illustrations. (8vo). Includes: Shooting: Moor and Marsh. Decorative cloth. 1887. Second Edition. Shooting: Field and Covert. Decorative cloth. Inscription on recto of frontispiece: "Charles Lee Mucklow, September, 1893. Charterhouse. For services rendered, to Payeite Library, 1893, being [?] first season." 1892. Fourth Edition, Revised. Shooting: Moor and Marsh. Red leather with gilt design and spine, morocco spine label, gilt stamped design of Haileybury College on front cover, with college bookplates, marbled endpapers and edges. 1901. Fifth Edition. Shooting: Field and Covert. Red leather with gilt design and spine, morocco spine label, gilt stamped design of Haileybury College on front cover, with college bookplates, marbled endpapers and edges. 1901. Sixth Edition. The Badminton Library, called in full The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, was a sporting and publishing project conceived and founded by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort. Between 1885 and 1902 it developed into a series of sporting books which aimed to cover comprehensively all major sports and pastimes. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear, soiling, and rubbing to bindings; hinges cracked or starting, toning to pages and scattered foxing, all plates intact; very good. Item number: 274890