By Eric Parker
London   The Field Press
7.5" by 5.5" xii [1], 15-111pp
The first edition of this short but informative guide to partridge management and breeding in the British Isles.
By Eric Parker

1927 Partridges: Yesterday And To-Day

London   The Field Press
7.5" by 5.5" xii [1], 15-111pp
The first edition of this short but informative guide to partridge management and breeding in the British Isles.
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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of Eric Parker's discussion of game-keeping and partridge farming, with chapters discussing food supply, winter feeding and diseases, and with passages dedicated to the importation of Hungarian Partridges, the exchange of eggs, and the Euston system of partridge rearing.

With Parker's preface explaining that the substance of the work is a response to a questionnaire sent out by the Field Press in the autumn of 1926 to the owner's of partridge manors in the British Isles.

With the bookplate of Alan Thornton to the front pastedown.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Shelf wear to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Spot to title page, otherwise generally clean and bright, with only the odd spot.

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