Newspaper cuttings primarily from the Evening News, but also from the Field, Industries and Manchester Courier.

Sturdy Victorian quarto scrapbook with printed title by Marcus Ward and Co. of Belfast, half-bound in green leather and with 'Newspaper Cuttings' in large gilt copperplate on the spine. Internally tight and in very good condition, although paper grubby, spotted and discoloured with age. Binding rubbed and worn, with much loss at foot of spine. Unfilled 12-leaf thumb-index followed by 146 paginated pages, 11 of which are blank, the others generally fully filled with two columns of newspaper cuttings. An interesting compilation casting valuable light on the role of firearms in late-Victorian society ('a multitude of well-dressed folk, plentifully interspersed with volunteers in uniform'). Subjects include: the Wimbledon Rifle Meeting; the new Wimbledon Meeting (with full-page plan of Bisley Camp and ranges); the winner of the Queen's Prize, an interview with Sergeant Bates (with portrait); the National Rifle Meeting at Bisley; Harrow School Rifles; new patent pneumatic dynamite shell (with 2 diagrams); the new magazine rifle (detailed diagram over double-page spread); gun cast by new process; public schools competition at Wimbledon. A few cuttings hint at the identity of the compiler: royal review at Windsor; the Empress Louise and Mr. Gladstone at Harrow; protestant outburst at Pembroke College; no popery riot in an Oxford college.