Big Game Shooting

Clive Phillipps-Wolley et al., Big Game Shooting. Two volumes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. xvi, 453; x, 443 pages. Hardbound first edition. Illustrated, indices for each volume. This two-volume item from the famed Badminton Library had a list of contributors that was almost a “Who’s Who” of Victorian sport—Cotton Oswell, Sir Samuel Baker, F. J. Jackson, Fred Selous, Abel Chapman, and others. Good with binding tight and interior generally clean. Some bumping to corners and top and bottom of spines frayed (there is a small tear at bottom of spine to Volume II). $200.