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The sportsman and his dog: or, Hints on sporting. / Edited by the author of "Scottish sports and pastimes".
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blaze, Elzéar, 1786-1848.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Shooting.
- Dogs.
- Game and game-birds.
- Hunting.
- Genre:
- Binders' tickets (Binding) -- 1850.
- Pictorial bindings (Binding) -- 1850.
- Embossed bindings (Binding) -- 1850.
- Physical Description:
- 205 pages : frontispiece ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : J. and D.A. Darling, 1850.
- Contents:
- The sportsman and his dog
- Taking the field
- Make ready-fire
- The more haste the less speed
- The wind and the walk
- The hare
- The partridge
- The pheasant
- The woodcock
- The wild duck
- The snipe
- Chance game
- Intrepid sportsmen
- The selfishness of sportsmen
- Necessary precautions
- The theoretical education of sporting dogs
- The practical education of sporting dogs
- The trickery of war
- The sportsman's nightmare-the gamekeeper.
- Notes:
- A translation by H.B. Hall of E. Blazé's Le chasseur au chien d'arrêt.
- Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "Bound by Josiah Westley, London."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in green embossed cloth with a hunting dog in gold.
- Athenaeum copy: Ex libris: NY Mercantile Library.
- OCLC:
- 12789561
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