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The gentleman's recreations: in three parts. The first part contains a short and easie introduction to all the liberal arts and sciences, &c. The second treats of horsemanship, hawking, ... The third is a compleat body of all out forest, chace, and game-laws, ... The whole illustrated with near an hundred copper-cuts ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks *Am 1710 Blo AqD55 C8391
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blome, Richard, 1635-1705 17479
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 3v.,plates : ill. ; 2°.
- Edition:
- The second edition corrected, with near one half of additions.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for R. Bonwicke; J. Walthoe; W. Freeman, T. Goodwin, M. Wotton [and 5 others in London], 1709-10.
- Notes:
- With an additional titlepage, 'The gentlemans recreation by R: Blome', engraved; and a list of subscribers in part I.
- Parts II & III are dated 1709 and have differing imprints; the latter is entitled 'The laws of the forest and game: .. according to the common and statute-laws of England', and bears the imprint: "In the Savoy, printed by J. Nutt, assign of Edward Sayer Esq; ..".
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Alston III.202
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