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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| Language: | English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
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| Summary: | 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 printed but possibly in 1770 (dated from book adverts at end); Dingley 251 (=Mellon 53) is clearly a different printing. Huth has the 1795 edition by J.(sic.) Fairfax; also of interest is that among the adverts in this copy is one for J. Thompson's "The Complete Horse Doctor." There is a poem below the author's name on the title page, "A sportsman's skill, whoever means to claim, Must read our book, and then he'll know his game ..." |
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| Item Description: | From "Of breeding and managing game cocks" to "Of shooting and of shooting flying, &c." text is in two columns divided by double rule. Signatures: pi B-L¹² 2pi⁶ Mis-numbering: 263 for 236, iv for iii, vi for iv. |
| Physical Description: | 1 unnumbered leaf of plate, 263 [printed as 236], 4 unnumbered pages, 12 pages : frontispiece ; 17 cm |
| Bibliography: | "Books just published by J. Cooke": pages [237-240]; "A list of useful and entertaining books printed for and sold by J. Cooke": 12 pages. |