59 pages, about 8" x 5 1/2", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a photocopy. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Chapter 3 is missing but the page count above and index below are correct.

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 59

• Instructions for the Use of Sporting Gunpowder, Black and Patent
• Written by "An old Manufacturer"
• Modern Gunpowder and its Manufacturing
• Combustion and Range
• Pressures in Sporting Guns
• Measuring Pressures
• Tables of Pressures
• Trials and their Results
• Recoil and Kick
• Brown Powder Pressures
• Influence of Shot on Pressures
• Influence of Wads on Pressures
• Influence of Moisture on Pressures
• How to Load With Black Powder
• Overloading and Smoke
• How to Obtain a Given Velocity
• Small Charges
• Wads
• Hard and Soft Shot
• Best Size of Shot
• Systematic Loading
• Table of Loads
• Weight of Powder Charges in Drachms and Grains
• Shot Sizes and Weghts
• Curtis and Harvey Improved Cartridge Warmer