The Sportsman's dictionary or The country gentlemen's companion 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 etc extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors ancient and modern with large improvements made by several gentlemen illustrated :: printing

Title:

The Sportsman's dictionary, or, The country gentlemen's companion 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, etc. : extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, ancient, and modern : with large improvements, made by several gentlemen ... illustrated ...

Published / Created:

London : Printed for C. Hitch, C. Davis, and S. Austen, 1735.

Physical Description:

2 v., 25 [i.e. 26], pl. (part fold.; incl. front., music) ; 21 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sporting 2101
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 47

BEIR Uzn13 735s: Autograph: Wm. H. Brewer.

BAC: British Art Center copy: 2 volumes. Octavo. Black speckled brown calf; tooled in gilt on front and back covers and spines, all edges speckled pink. Title-pages in both volumes. Volume I: 15 plates of etchings, 1 etching in text being the frontispiece. Volume II: 10 plates of etchings. Spine height: 8 inches.

Subject Terms:

Sports -- Dictionaries. | Brewer, William Henry, 1828–1910.