A rare survival from the eighteenth century, Everard Simpson's The Breeding and Management of Fighting Cocks (1781) is among the earliest treatises of its kind on the rearing and conditioning of gamefowl.
Reaching back to the eighteenth century, it sets out the period practice of selecting, rearing, feeding and conditioning game birds - a window onto a rural sporting world now long past.
A rare 1781 text, restored in an affordable modern edition for the poultry keeper, the rural historian and the collector of early sporting works.
This edition features:
- An 1781 treatise on breeding and managing gamefowl.
- Covers the period practice of rearing, feeding and conditioning.
- A window onto eighteenth-century rural sporting life.
- Faithfully reproduced in a modern edition.