The Young Sportman's sic Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, Ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Coneys, Hares and Dogs and how to Cure them.

by G.M. by Gervase Markham

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First edition

First edition. Woodcut frontispiece of an angler with fish on the line. iv , 140 pp. 1 vols. 48mo. Later 18th-century red straight-grain morocco, flat spine lettered in gilt, gilt rules, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Extremities a little worn, a very good copy. ESTC N14392. Westwood & Satchell, p.146-7; Schwerdt II, 13; Poynter *1.1. Huth sale 4 Jul. 1916, lot 4717, Schwerdt sale 2 Mar. 1946 , lot 1739, Thompson sale, 14 Oct. 1968 , lot 115; Schiff

• Binding: Leather

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