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The gentlemans recreation.

Creator
Blome, Richard, -1705
Date
MDCLXXXVI. [1686]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England London
Reference ID
Film Acc. 627
Caption
London : Printed by S. Roycroft, for Richard Blome, dwelling at the upper end of Dutchy-Lane, near Somerset-House in the Strand, MDCLXXXVI. [1686]
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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

Creator
Blome, Richard, -1705
Date
MDCLXXXVI. [1686]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
B3213
Caption
London : Printed by S. Roycroft, for Richard Blome, dwelling at the upper end of Dutchy-Lane, near Somerset-House in the Strand, MDCLXXXVI. [1686]
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