The complete sportsman; or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them. Of rearing and backing colts. Of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. Of horse-racing. Of bowling. Of fox-hunting. Of buck-hunting. Of otter-hunting. Of coursing. Of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun, or chace, &c. Of angling in all its various branches. Of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. Of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game. Of shooting and of shooting flying, &c. Together with several other equally curous articles too numerous to be mentioned in this title page /
Niall Kenny description: Pagination errors: 236 as given as '263', iii as 'iv', iv as 'vi'; odd gatherings as the signatures alternate between A and B for the first five leaves although the catch-words are correct, have assumed is 'B' gathering. Uncertain when...
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| Main Author: |
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq |
| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
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