The gentlemans recreation : in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : 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, 1635-1705
- Date:
- 1686
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About this work
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ..., 1686.
Physical description
2 parts (16 unnumbered pages, 236 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 280 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 103 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, charts, coats of arms, plans
Contributors
References note
Wing B3213
T. Westwood and T. Satchell. Bib. piscatoria 1183, p. 35.
Notes
Added engraved t.p.
Dedication signed: Richard Blome.
Part 2 has special t.p. and separate paging with imprint: London : Printed for the Undertaker Richard Blome, 1686.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Approbation of Charles II, "given ... the 14th day of February 1682/3," first preliminary leaf; engraved coats of arms of the "Benefactors to this work," f. 1-10.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 375:10) s1999 miun s