The gentlemans recreation
Subtitle: in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 375:10
Publisher: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ...
Published: 1686
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800; Sports -- Great Britain; Agriculture -- Early works to 1800; Science -- Early works to 1800; Hunting -- Early works to 1800; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Added engraved t.p

Dedication signed: Richard Blome

Part 2 has special t.p. and separate paging with imprint: London : Printed for the Undertaker Richard Blome, 1686

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library

Approbation of Charles II, "given ... the 14th day of February 1682/3," first preliminary leaf; engraved coats of arms of the "Benefactors to this work," f. 1-10

Wing B3213

T. Westwood and T. Satchell. Bib. piscatoria 1183, p. 35

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1971. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 375:10)

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