- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: The Sportsman's Press; 1st edition (6 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0948253738
- ISBN-13: 978-0948253737
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,887,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
GB in his usual style covered the topic well. I enjoyed the detail and photography but felt that more column inches could have been spent on the more quality makers such as boss, woodward and purdey.
Worth the money as a reference if you are buying one of these modern works of art.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Excellent book
28 Feb 2006
Format:Hardcover
Another fine work from one of the world's foremost authorities on firearms. GB brings his 40 years of knowledge and research into this book and as well as being a good read it also contains many fine photographs many of which were taken by the author.
Thoroughly recommend this book.
Thoroughly recommend this book.
A very poor book.
20 April 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
There are two main problems with this book.
The first is that it's a re-hash of Boothroyds magazine articles (as are many of his books) & the information in it is of little extra value if you already have access to these articles.
The second & the main problem (for any reader) is the quality of information. Aside from the first general chapter, each subsequent chapter covers a particular gunmaker but there's far too much general historical information about the gunmaker & too little about the actual guns.
The books title implies it's about over & under shotguns but when the general `padding' is stripped away some chapters would have little more than a couple of paragraphs about the subject. Some of the illustrations have absolutely nothing to do with the subject (e.g. a photo of an engraver marking out an engraving pattern on the barrels of a side by side shotgun).
There is really no discussion of the design principles of the various makers guns & few of the photos help to illustrate specific features of design.
I get the impression Boothroyd wrote & illustrated the entire book from the material he had to hand without any attempt to add new information or illustrations.
It could hardly be more shallow & there is so much missing as to give an incorrect picture rather than just an incomplete one. If you don't know anything at all about British over & under shotguns then a bargain priced copy may just be worth buying - otherwise forget it.
The first is that it's a re-hash of Boothroyds magazine articles (as are many of his books) & the information in it is of little extra value if you already have access to these articles.
The second & the main problem (for any reader) is the quality of information. Aside from the first general chapter, each subsequent chapter covers a particular gunmaker but there's far too much general historical information about the gunmaker & too little about the actual guns.
The books title implies it's about over & under shotguns but when the general `padding' is stripped away some chapters would have little more than a couple of paragraphs about the subject. Some of the illustrations have absolutely nothing to do with the subject (e.g. a photo of an engraver marking out an engraving pattern on the barrels of a side by side shotgun).
There is really no discussion of the design principles of the various makers guns & few of the photos help to illustrate specific features of design.
I get the impression Boothroyd wrote & illustrated the entire book from the material he had to hand without any attempt to add new information or illustrations.
It could hardly be more shallow & there is so much missing as to give an incorrect picture rather than just an incomplete one. If you don't know anything at all about British over & under shotguns then a bargain priced copy may just be worth buying - otherwise forget it.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
What a piece of crap.
10 Mar 2004
Format:Hardcover
Again, Geoffrey Boothroyd is continuing his legacy in fabricating what he doesn't know/can't research.
The book was hilarious at some parts that I couldn't just stop laughing, some of his statements -specially the historical ones- show that he was very lazy to even read books that were published years before this gem which would've saved us from reading his fabrications.
To give you an example of a very odd statement, is how "Purdeys couldn't make an offer and instead began making guns for Woodward, thus there were three types of O/Us made by Purdeys: Woodwards made for him, Purdey/Woodward (whatever this means!!) and Purdey based on Woodward made in their own factory"..............
Beaumont and Dallas books say simply that Woodward came to them, they made him an offer, purchased everything, changed few things in design and porduced "Purdey" o/u on the modified system (Note that Beaumont's book was there for 10 years before Boothroyd writes this gadget)!
He could only use this book to mis-read something and claim again that first Purdey O/U on Woodward design was a 16 bore, while infact Beaumont says the first O/U ever by Purdey was 16 bore M/L rifle built in 1871 !!! First O/U on Woodward was a 12 bore built around 1950.
The guy can't even read and quote.
Sections on Beesley, Lang, WR and others have similar hilarious fabrications, unfortunately I'm limited to 1000 words.
Not a total waste of money, the laughs deserved it!
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