The Gentleman' Recreation.

£5,000 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

An impressive work containing the earliest known illustrations of British Field sports. An elaborate endeavour for the time, this volume remains a good source on science, husbandry, agriculture, hunting, and fishing, containing extensive illustrations and diagrams in addition to the 85 copper-engraved plates. First edition; folio (420 x 260 mm); emblematic frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, 85 copper-engraved plates, further in text woodcut illustrations, initials, head and tailpieces, the odd minor tear, slightly toned; later diced calf, decorative gilt roll border, sometime rebacked, contrasting morocco lettering-piece to spine, upper joint rubbed an starting to split at head of spine, extremities rubbed with slight loss to corners, later endpapers, very good; [16], 236, [2], 280, [4]pp. ESTC R23267.

• Binding: Hardcover

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