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BLOME (RICHARD) and NICHOLAS COX The Gentlemans Recreation. In Two Parts. The First Being an Encyclopedy of the Arts and Sciences... the Second Part, Treats of Horsmanship, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Fishing, and Agriculture. With a Short Treatise of Cock-fighting, first edition, S. Roycroft, for Richard Blome, 1686
25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
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[BLOME (RICHARD) and NICHOLAS COX]
The Gentlemans Recreation. In Two Parts. The First Being an Encyclopedy of the Arts and Sciences... the Second Part, Treats of Horsmanship, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Fishing, and Agriculture. With a Short Treatise of Cock-fighting, first edition, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 85 plates (including 10 plates of subscribers' arms, 4 plates trimmed, one with short tear repaired), woodcut illustrations, letterpress approbation leaf facing title, calf gilt by Roger de Coverley, g.e., small scuffmark on lower cover [Wing B3213; Schwerdt I, p.72], folio (400 x 245mm.), S. Roycroft, for Richard Blome, 1686
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The first part deals with all manner of arts and sciences including navigation; the second with horsemanship, hunting, hawking, fishing, agriculture etc., including well-executed plates with engraved dedications below the image. Schwerdt notes that "perfect copies are rarely found; the imprimatur leaf, some of the plates of arms, especially the 10th, and the plate of horsemanship inscribed to Sir John Skeffington [all present here], are often missing."
