No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked course linen cloth boards, dusty page edges and slight bumping to upper corners. Plates pus 162pp.

A detailed work on the development and making of the Muzzle-Loading Flintlock Rifle from 1811 onwards including armament statistics from the US Civil War. The author, a famous and enthusiastic member of the Muzzle_Loading Rifle Association of North America takes us through his collection of guns and tells us about frontier riflemen of history, shooting contests plus many tales of rifle folklore. With fifty photographic plates of rifles and riflemen. . Scarce first edition in the UK.