hardcover book. rubbing on spine. marks on both front and back cover. age spotting. blank pages at the back, each titled 'notes on guns loads and shooting'. writing on first cover. description of the book, as taken from the introduction by John Richards of the 1996 edition of this book: Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey's High Pheasants - in Theory and Practice was the last and one of the most technical of his books, first published in 1913. It is clearly the product of an inquisitive and agile mind. The accumulated experience of a lifetime's study of firearms and shooting are distilled within its pages. Although it must be mentioned that the ingenious experiments were carried out using cartridges loaded with powders current at the time, the results of those tests are still basically relevant today. There can be no doubt that many of the guns Sir Ralph used during the tests are still in active use today since basic English sporting gun design has not changed since then. Nor have the principle