Folio. 12 large-scale chromolithographic plates, each with accompanying text by Charles Lanier, all loose (as issued).  Retaining original pictorial boards (rubbed). All housed in modern portfolio.

FIRST EDITION of Arthur Burdett Frost's masterpiece, "one of the most famous series of American sporting pictures" (Bennett). Frost remains one of America's best-loved sporting artists, and the chromolithographs in this work are among his most desired. The subjects of his various shooting scenes include rail shooting, bay snipe, ruffed grouse, summer woodcock, prairie chicken, ducks from a blind, rabbit shooting, autumn woodcock, and quail shooting.  Bennett 44; Reed the A. B. Frost Book.