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.

About this Item

Title
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.
Author
Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
Publication
London :: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ...,
1686.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms
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.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28396.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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 4, 2024.

Pages

The Ornaments of the Capital, are [ 50]

The List of the Abacus15
The Abacus34
The Ovum, or Ovolo, or Quarter round33 ½
The List under the Ovum11
The Friese of the Capital40

Beneath the Capital is the Roundel, or Astra∣gal, and the Collar, which makes part of the Trunk of the Column, not of the Capital.

The Astragal, or Roundel12 [ 60]
The Collar of the Column½1

The Trunk of the Column is of the height of one Model, and 7 parts over, in like manner as the Friese of the Capital, which for that reason hath nothing of projecture.

Although the Tuscan Order seldom hath a Pedestal, yet it is made here for Example sake, as in the Figure marked B. And in all the 5 Orders take this for a general Rule, That the Pedestal with its Ornaments must be one third part of the Column, with its Basis and Capital; likewise the Ornaments above, viz. the Architrave, Friese, and Cornice must make one fourth part of the same. And if you are to make any of the 5 Orders, you must divide the height of the Co∣lumn with its Ornaments into 19 parts; then take the height of the Column with its Basis, and Capital, and make the divisions of the Models according to its Order, as the Dorick, Ionick, &c. Then frame the Fabrick with this Model, divi∣ding its parts, as may be seen in the said Figure marked B, where A, doth represent the Body of the Column; B, the nether Band or Swathe; E, the List; F, the Gula, or Throat reversed in the Pe∣destal; G, the Body of the Column, and so forth.

The Figure A, shews the Capital, Architrave, Friese, and Cornish of the said Tuscan Order; And the Figure B, tho Base, and Pedestal there∣of.

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.