The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

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5 plates. xii, 526, 2 ; iv & 506, 2 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Quarter modern brown calf and cloth. Fine, text with some toning, plates quite foxed. Signed Mr. Arthur Morgan, 1824. Schwerdt IV, p. 248; Riling 340; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 367. Item #236883 Rilings writes that Taplin's work is, a true dictionary, but mainly on the horse and dog as used in 'riding the hounds.'

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