ROYALTY, MANUSCRIPT. - Edward LOCH. The Improved Game and Fishing Book. London: A. Webster and Company, [1910.] Oblong folio (136 x 270mm.) Hand-written entries from 1912-1941 by Lord Edward Loch, in pencil and ink, relating to hunting and fishing in England and Scotland, with observations, some anecdote and numbers caught, including 11 mounted black and white photographs, 3 loose. (Mild toning.) Contemporary full green straight-grain morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover (with loss to corner of upper cover). Note: contains an entry for a shoot at Windsor Castle: 'His Majesty The King, H.J and R.H. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, H.H. the Duke of Teck, Duke of Roxburghe, Self. Two wonderful days shooting. Most interesting to see the competition between the King and Archduke- both shooting with their guns beautifully. The King was best especially with his third gun but the Archduke took a lot of beating'. The entry is dated 18.11.13, seven months before the Archduke was assassinated in Sarajevo, the immediate event causing the outbreak of world war. During the war there are only two recorded hunts, both in 1916. In 1919 the Lord resumes regular hunting, starting on his own estate in Stoke-by Clare in Suffolk. In writing this entry, there's a hesitancy in the pen-stroke, suggesting that in declaring the King to be the best shot, Loch was perhaps being more patriotic than truthful.