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Survey of English Dialects recording in Stokesley, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
16 Apr 1955
[Side 1] Charles talks about traditional farm practice, briefly mentions ploughing, threshing and describes stacking techniques, compares methods now and in past, recalls long hours with horses before...
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
Blome, Richard (1705)
1686
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 Charle...