Author:
BAKER Ezekiel
Title:
Twenty Six Years Practice And Observations With Rifle Guns
Price:
£300.00
Year:
1806
Edition:
3rd
Publisher:
sold by E. Baker, and T. Egerton, 1806 (Wright, printer)
Summary:
24 pages, Coloured frontis of a standing rifleman and 3 other coloured plates of "rifleman presenting" 2 coloured target plates and 1 uncoloured. The dedication page, to The Prince Of Wales with coloured Fleur De Lis and 3 uncoloured targets fired at by the Prince, dated Brighton Dec 11th 1805. A page detailing weight of lead balls from 1 to 50 to the pound giving weights diameters, ounces drams, grains. Some offsetting from the plates to the text and general age browning, end papers foxed. Contemporary ownership signature to upper blank margin of the title page for Charles Pland repeated on the margin of the first page and rear paste down. Recased retaining the original end papers and boards with new matching spine. The first edition circa 1803 titled Twenty-Two Years Practice and Observations with Rifle Guns. Each edition was updated through to the 11th in 1835. The first 3 editions are particularly scarce, only 1copy of the 1806 edition located in UK libraries. Ezekiel Baker was a renowned English gunsmith who popularized his own design of the Whitechapel-based gunsmith, was notable for the British Army's use of his rifle, known subsequently as 'The Baker Rifle', the first gun to feature a rifled Barrell. Riling 329
Ref:
23802
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