Blome, Richard. The gentlemans recreation. : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats the doctrine, and general parts of each art, ... The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the said recreations. 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

Folger bibliographic ID: 148055
ESTC number: R23267
Wing number: B3213
Folger call number: B3213
Folger holdings ID: 132664

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folio

General notes

With an additional title page (plate) engraved: The gentlemans recreation by R. Blome Title page in red and black Approbation of Charles II, "given ... the 14th day of February 1682/3," first preliminary leaf Part 2 has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed for the undertaker Richard Blome", pagination and register Portions also available as a digital reproduction

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1991. Reign of the Horse (catalog p. 35) (Part 2) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: p. 477

Item information about Folger B3213

127649. Imperfect: lacking folded plate. Some plates (e.g. folio 10) possibly printed unfinished. Manuscript notes. Plate bound second after leaf 2X1 has obscured dedication;. plate bound after ²E2 mutilated and repaired, affecting text; plate bound second after leaf ²Z1 torn and repaired, affecting engraving. Foxed and stained, affecting text. Cambridge-style binding, signed by Wallis. Provenance: Huntington Library duplicate copy

Extended title: The gentlemans recreation. : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats the doctrine, and general parts of each art, ... The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the said recreations. 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

Encyclopedias and dictionaries Sports Agriculture Science Hunting Veterinary medicine

author: Blome, Richard, -1705
former owner: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery