Excerpt from Sporting Sketches With Pen and Pencil
I have had the desire to publish an illustrated work of this sort for a good many years; but the difficulty always has been to meet with an artist equal to the task. Many a Shooting and Fishing Picture have I seen published, in which the artist had not the slightest acquaintance with the subject he bad undertaken, and wherein the details had been furnished entirely by his imagination. There can be no need for me to say that my friend Mr. Alfred Cooper has a thorough knowledge of Sport in all its branches, and of the implements and requirements needed for its prosecution. His drawings are most of them Nature, and many of the figures are Portraits of well-known persons.
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