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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

Archive Print Item: BC Case 45 BLO

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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

Level: Item

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.

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