The Gentleman’s Recreation, in Four Parts. Viz: Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing… Wherein is added, a perfect Abstract of all Forest-Laws, and of every particular Act of Parliament since Magna Charta to this Time...
by Cox, Nicholas
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About This Item
London: Printed for N. C. and sold by J. Wilcox, 1721 Sixth edition with "large additions." Octavo. 7½x4½ inches. Pp. iv, 1-304 (i.e.: 288), 285-438, [2], 1-115, [9, index]. Copper-engraved frontis plate plus 3 (of 4) folding copper-engraved plates (lacking hunting plate), numerous head and tail pieces. Contemporary paneled calf. Light wear to head of spine, upper front hinge starting, corners rubbed (one with light wear), light extremity rubbing, almost imperceptible damp stain to lower edge of some leaves. Early signatures and dates on endpaper. Overall, a very good copy, internally clean. The text of this work includes hunter’s terms, with text on dogs, greyhounds, styles of hunting, hunting of deer, hares, bucks, rabbits, foxes, badgers, squirrels, wolves, bears, beavers, otters, and other animals; maladies of hunting dogs, terms of hawking and falconry, on hawks and a complete description of hawking, an account of fowling, song-birds, bats, pheasants, taking small birds in bushes, the stalking horse, how to hunt on a horse, water-birds, magpies, quails, and many others; how to train setting dogs, angling in general, how to fish, how to raise carps in ponds, types of angling tools, how to catch carps, perch, salmon, trout; a lengthy text on the hunting-horse, how to train, ride, and use, and its maladies and treatment. The last section on Manwood’s Forest Laws, is complete with its own title page dated 1721..
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- Title
- The Gentleman’s Recreation, in Four Parts. Viz: Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing… Wherein is added, a perfect Abstract of all Forest-Laws, and of every particular Act of Parliament since Magna Charta to this Time...
- Author
- Cox, Nicholas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Printed for N. C. and sold by J. Wilcox
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1721
- Keywords
- Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, Fowling, Dogs, Game Hunting, England, History, Laws
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