Blome, Richard  "The Gentlemans Recreation. In two parts. T...

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Blome, Richard 
"The Gentlemans Recreation. In two parts. The first being an encyclopaedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part, treats of horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing and agriculture, with a short treatise of cock fighting ... all of which are collected from the most authentic authors and the many gross errors therein corrected with great enlargements made by those well experienced in the said recreations and for the better explanation thereof great variety of useful sculptures as nets, traps, engines, etc are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish not hither to published by any, the whole illustrated engraved in copper relating to several subjects", printed by S Roycroft for Richard Blome, dwelling at the upper end of Dutchy-Lane, near Somerset-House in the Strand, 1686, red and black lettered tp, engraved frontis, dedication to 'The Most August James II ....', 10 plates of the benefactors to this work, two engraved plates before grammar part 1, one plate backed by paper, one plate small hole in the margin, 72 plates in all, Hern Hawking plate repaired margin bottom left, numerous woodcut illustrations and details throughout the text, bkpl for the Hon P Ashburnham inside front board, has been rebound, full leather and backstrip laid down, bookworm has been at the edge of the backstrip, speckled edges, gilt dentelles to the edge of the boards, 22cm x 27cm