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Horace Ford was born in 1822. He began his working life in the office of his father, a London Solicitor. Later he managed a colliery in Wales. In the mid 1840s there was a great revival of archery as a sport, and Ford distinguished himself by becoming British champion in 1849, a title which he won twelve times. He first published Archery, its Theory and Practice in 1856 and the present book is a facsimile of that edition. Despite its age it is not only of historical interest, for it is still a u.......

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The book by Adrian Eliot Hodgkin was first published large format in 1951. This photo-reduced paperback reprint has been produced primarily to cater for those who wish to make bows, especially longbows, arrows and other archer's tackle, the traditional way. Hodgkin's book was originally written for hunters, but hunting with the bow is now illegal in the United Kingdom, and the interest nowadays is in target practice and competitions for some, and in taking part in mock battles in historical cost.......

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J. Maurice Thompson's classic was first published in the United States in 1877, where it did a great deal to promote the sport of archery out of the general tedium of life that had set in after the Civil War. This paperback is a facsimile reprint of the edition of 1928 which omitted items from the first edition that were quoted from Ford's well known book on Archery, and chapters on Lady Toxophilites and Robin Hood, replacing them with hunting stories which Maurice Thompson had written at other .......

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