Billesdon Coplow
Subtitle: a poem ; Monday, February 24, A.D. 1804 [i.e. 1800]
Contributors: Oates, Robert Washington (book stamp)
Publisher: Printed by J. Brown
Published: 1809
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Sports in literature
Notes: Attributed to Robert Lowth--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.

From the collection of Robert Washington Oates, bearing his or the Oates family's ("Bibliotheca Oatesiana") ownership marks. The family library was housed at the Oates home, now a museum in Selborne, England, dedicated to Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates, and to naturalist Gilbert White, a former owner of the house--Cf. Payne, W.H. Hudson: A Bibliography, 1977.

First sporting book published in Canada.

In slipcase.

Purchase; James Cummins Bookseller; 2015; RB321962.