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Author: GREENER W.W.

Title: The Gun and Its Development

Price: £200.00

Year: 1910

Edition: 9th

Publisher: Cassells and Co

Summary: xx- 804 pages, xxviii adverts many for Greener guns etc., large 8vo., frontis illustration of W.W. Greener, full page and text illustrations throughout. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt title and gun motif to theupper cover. A very good copy of the last and best edition seldom found in vg condition, the text block is heavy and often breaks from the binding. First published in 1881 it was subsequently brought up to date over many years, the 9th being the last and most up to date edition, Riling states Greener in 1896 describes the 3rd edition as the best, this distinction now belongs properly to the ninth and last edition. A book of great importance to arms enthusiasts and gun book collectors alike. Riling 1088

Ref: 24009

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