The Sportsman's dictionary : or, The country gentlemen's companion in all rural recreations, with full and particular instructions for hawking, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, riding, cocking : with the method of breeding, curing, dieting, and ordering of horses, dogs, pigeons, cocks, etc. : extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, ancient, and modern : with large improvements, made by several gentlemen well experienced in these noble exercises. Illustrated with nearly thirty copper-plates, representing the different kinds of nets, engines, and traps, that are made use of in taking all sorts of game.
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Head and tail pieces; initials. Frontispiece not included in plate enumeration. Folding plates illustrate nets, snares, and traps; remainder illustrate vignettes: Fishing, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, Racing, and Fowling. Volume 2, last page verso: "Directions for placing the copper-plates." |
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| Physical Description: | 2 volumes (unpaged, XXV leaves of plates (19 folded) : frontispiece, illustrations ; 20 cm. |