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 ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : 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.
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- 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 ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : 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.
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- Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ...,
- 1686.
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- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
- Sports -- Great Britain.
- Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
- Science -- Early works to 1800.
- Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
- Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : 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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28396.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.
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[illustration] royal blazon or coat of armsCRHONI · SOIT · QVI · MAL · Y · PENSEDIEV · ET MON · DROIT
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HONI · SOIT · QVI · MAL · Y · PENSE
DIEV · ET MON · DROIT
CHARLES REX.
CHARLES the Second, by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, De∣fender of the Faith, &c.
To all the Nobility and Gentry of Our Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and to all other Our Loving Subjects of what Degree and Quality soever, Greeting:
Whereas Richard Blome of London, Gentleman, hath In∣formed Vs, That he hath employed his Time, and been at great Expences in preparing for the Press a Volume to be En∣tituled, The Gentleman's Recreation, Treating of Hawking, Hunt∣ing, &c. as by his Proposals it doth further appear. And being given to understand by the Certificate of several Persons of Honour, That the Work will be of great use, and acceptable to all Our good Subjects, and especially to the Nobility and Gentry, We have thought fit, at the humble Request of the said Richard Blome, to declare Our Royal Approbation to the said Vndertaking: And out of Our Princely desire to promote all such commendable and useful Works; and the better to embolden him to finish this Volume now in hand with, We do hereby recommend his said Endeavours unto you, to the end that by your Subscriptions you may encourage him to perfect and finish the said Book. And, Whereas we are Informed, That the said Richard Blome will be at great Charges to perfect the same, by reason of its being Illustrated with divers Sculptures, as Engines, Nets, and the like, relating to the said Sports of Hunting, Fowling, &c. We do by these Presents strictly charge and prohibit all Our Subjects, within Our Kingdoms of England and Ireland, to Reprint the said Book, in whole, or in part, within the term of Fourteen Years, without the Consent and Approbation of the said Richard Blome, his Executors or Administrators, as they will answer the contrary at their Perils, whereof the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers are to take Notice, that the same may be entred into their Register, and due Obedience to be yielded thereunto.
Given at Our Court of White-Hall the 14th Day of February 1682-83, in the 35th Year of Our Reign.
By His Majesties Command.SUNDERLAND.