The compleat sportsman; or country gentleman's recreation. : Containing the very best instructions under the following heads. Viz. Of breeding and the management of game-cocks. Of cock-fighting. Of colts, and backing colts. Of the breeding and management of race-horses, hunters, &c. Of horse-racing. Of bowling. Of coursing. Of hare-hunting. Of fox-hunting. Of buck-hunting. Of breeding and ordering all manner of dogs, pigeons, rabbets, &c. Of angling. Of otters and otter-hunting. Of pheasants, partridges, wood-cocks, and all manner of game. Of breeding and managing canary-birds, &c. &c. And several other articles too numerous be mentioned in a title page. /
This is assumed to be the first edition (and is certainly the earliest dated edition). This edition, and its re-issues in 1762, 1764 and 1765, have no frontispiece; as all subsequent undated editions do it is therefore reasonable to assume that these are all after 1764/5 irrespective of page number....
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