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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It is now a long time sun before tracy of volumes in Sport and Games was first put before the public. During these many years great changes have taken place in men and in methods; how numerous and how great those changes have been it needs no more than a glance at the text and illustra- tions of the older existing volumes to discover. The traditions the customs the guiding principles of the great sports and games doubtless remain; but as the years go on new discoveries are made new developments follow new methods are found to be successful. In the process of time these demand notice and explanation. It would not be difficult to give examples of many such changes. A few may suffice. To take the sport of shooting first even some twenty years ago almost nothing was known of the nature and causes of what was vaguely called ‘disease’ in grouse. The knowledge which research and examination have given us of these to-day has profoundly affected methods of moor management. Again in regard to fishing it is only of recent years that we have been able to piece together the life- history of the salmon by means of the reading of scales; we have learned much of the powers of vision of fish; and there have Limprovements in the manufacture of rods and tackle. (SP)