Is anyone aware of a book of primarily color photos of classic/vintage English shotguns?

The one I am currently enamored with is Vintage Guns by Diggory Hadoke. It is about the guns you seem to admire and I think you will enjoy it

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"The Best of British" by David Grant & Vic Venters. Lots of good color photos.

No color pictures, but I would Include Shotguns & Gunsmiths The Vintage Years or Sidelocks & Boxlocks The Classic British Shotguns both essentially the same book by Geoffrey Boothroyd.

Don't you mean colour photos?

+1 An excellent book.

DDA

"Birmingham Gunmakers" by Douglas Tate.

"British Gun Engraving" (Safari Press, 2000) fits the bill. Great pics by David Grant and insightful, original text by Doug Tate.

Thanks all, I just ordered some of the ones I did not already have.

Diggory's The British Boxlock Gun & Rifle is a beautiful book.

Any of the books by Donald Dallas are exceptional as well.

You raise an interesting question, and giving this some thought I arrived at the following conclusion; A really good and interesting book would be one that was beautifully illustrated and showed some of the classic 'house styles' and variations that are typical to some makers. Some examples would be;
Holland and Purdey's 'house' engraving styles
Woodwards's arcaded fences
Rigby's dipped edge locks
Lancaster and Hollands 'leg of mutton' locks
Westley Richards 'drop locks' and style of opening lever
Powell's push up opening lever
Greener's side safety
Boss's single trigger and selector
Churchill's house engraving and pinless locks

Back on topic, Donald Dallas and Douglas Tate have both done fine specialist books, and the Vic Venters book mentioned is also very good. Diggory Hadokes books are good, but the illustrations are more B&W, though good nonetheless.

Westley Richards, 'In Pursuit of the Best Gun' by Jeremy Musson.
Any Don Masters books 'The House of Churchill' 'Atkin Grant & Lang'.
So many books , all great quality , so little time .

I spell it the American way, it goes through the various spell checkers that way

All of the photos in "Boxlock" are in color.

I stand corrected. My 'library' is packed away at present whilst building work takes place. It's a good book anyway.

I just finished a great one on the guns of Cogswell and Harrison, but, I can't remember the exact name or author-it belongs to a good friend, and was so beautiful, I didn't want it around too long, lest the puppy, or kid do something bad to it.
It didn't make me want to run out and buy one of the guns, however. Beautiful pictures and history.

Best,
Ted

By Graham Cooley & John Newton - published (in UK anyway) by The Sportsman's Press