Shelfmark
Lnn.1.34
Title
The sportsman's dictionary : 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, &c. 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 near thirty copper-plates, representing the different kinds of nets, engines, and traps, that are made use of in taking all sorts of game.
Edition
The second edition. In one volume.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden Ball, in Pater-Noster Row, MDCCXLIV [1744]
Physical description
[744] p., leaves of folded plates : ill. (engravings) ; 20 cm., 8to.
Note
Includes directions for the placement of the plates.
Citation/references note
ESTC no: N23268
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available: Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1990. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 4242, no. 02).
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available: Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation: "Major General Villiers Hatton" (typed).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
Bookplate of T. Gosden.
Binding
Late 18th century tan leather with blind and gilt decoration (including a blind stamped stag's head on boards), with gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers, and edges gilt ; bound by Thomas Gosden.
Copy-specific note
Ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Ms. bookseller's notes and codes in pencil.
Subject
Hunting.
Subject
Falconry.
Subject
Fishing.
Subject
Horsemanship.
Added entry--name
Gosden, Thomas, 1780 - 1843 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--name
Osborn, John, ? - d. 1775 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B27453