The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

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Title: The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.
Author: Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673-1721.
Publication: London :: Printed, and are to be sold by Jos. Phillips ... and Hen. Rodes ...,; 1686.
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Subject terms: Hunting -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Fishing -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Fowling -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Falconry -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Game laws -- England.
Cite this Item: "The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34843.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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Of the WHITE-HOUND.

THose Hounds which are all of one colour, as all white, are the best Hounds; in like manner those which are spotted with red: but those which are spot∣ted with a dun colour, are of little value, being faint∣hearted, and cannot endure much labour. But should they happen to be whelpt coal-black, which is but sel∣dom, they commonly prove incomparable Hounds. But if white Hounds are spotted with black, experience tells us, they are never the best Hare-hunters. White, and black and white, and grey streak'd white, are also the most beautiful.