THE
ARCHER'S GUIDE:
CONTAINING
FULL INSTRUCTIONS
FOR THE USE OF THAT ANCIENT AND NOBLE INSTRUMENT
THE BOW;
DIRECTIONS FOR THE CHOICE OF ARROWS;
AND ALL INFORMATION ESSENTIAL TO THE ATTAINMENT OF
THEORETICAL PROFICIENCY IN THE GRACEFUL
MANLY AND FASHIONABLE PASTIME
OF
ARCHERY.
ACCOMPANIED BY ASKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE LONG-BOW,
WHETHER AS A WEAPON OF WAR OR AN INSTRUMENT
OF AMUSEMENT.
BY AN OLD TOXOPHILITE.
ILLUSTRATED WlTH PLATES OF THE COSTUME AND PARAPHERNALIA, POSITION IN
SHOOTING, ETC. BY R. CRUIKSHANK, ESQ. MEMBER OF THE
BROMPTON CLUB OF ARCHERS.
"Sound, sound the music, sound it,
Let hills and dales rebound it,
In praise of a archery:
Used as a game it pleases,
The mind to joy it raises,
And throws off all diseases
Of lazy luxury."
Let hills and dales rebound it,
In praise of a archery:
Used as a game it pleases,
The mind to joy it raises,
And throws off all diseases
Of lazy luxury."
Allan Ramsay's Poems, 1726.
LONDON:
T. HURST, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.
1833.