The gentlemans recreation : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats the doctrine, and general parts of each art,... The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements made by those well experienced in the said recreations. And for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish; not hitherto published by any. The whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures, engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects
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Type of record: Book
Title: The gentlemans recreation : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats the doctrine, and general parts of each art,... The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements made by those well experienced in the said recreations. And for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish; not hitherto published by any. The whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures, engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects
Classmark: BC Case 45 BLO
Creator(s): Blome, Richard (1705)
Publisher: printed by S. Roycroft, for Richard Blome, dwelling at the upper end of Dutchy-Lane, near Somerset-House in the Strand
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1686
Language: English
Size and medium: 14 unnumbered pages, 236 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 280 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10 pages, 77 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/287808
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002469619705181
Description
With an additional title page (plate) engraved: The gentlemans recreation by R. Blome.
Title page in red and black.
Printed in double columns.
Brome signs the dedication.
Approbation of Charles II, "given... the 14th day of February 1682/3," first preliminary leaf.
Part 2 has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed for the undertaker Richard Blome", pagination and register.
Anon., by Richard Blome.
Indexed in: Wing (CD-Rom, 1996) B3213.