8vo. xii, [1], 10-129pp, [3]. With a plate, several engraved illustrations in the text, and three terminal pages of advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Recently rebacked. Rubbed and marked. Recent bookplate of Henk Visser to FEP, early inked and pencilled ownership inscriptions to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting.

The second edition of a manual on riflery by Hans Busk the younger (1815-1882), one of the originators of the 'Volunteers'. As an undergraduate, Busk had lobbied the government to introduce rifle clubs as a defence measure, and founded a model rifle club at Cambridge in 1837.

Henk Visser (1923-2006), noted Dutch collector of arms and armour.