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The sportsman's directory, or, Park and gamekeeper's companion : containing instructions for breeding, feeding, and breaking dogs, hunting, and coursing, shooting, fishing, preserving game, decoys, breeding pheasants, partridges, pigeons, rabbits, &c. &c. : also, a description of all kinds of poaching, how to detect poachers, and to destroy their works : with abstracts of the new game acts, and upwards of fifty valuable recipes
Title
The sportsman's directory, or, Park and gamekeeper's companion : containing instructions for breeding, feeding, and breaking dogs, hunting, and coursing, shooting, fishing, preserving game, decoys, breeding pheasants, partridges, pigeons, rabbits, &c. &c. : also, a description of all kinds of poaching, how to detect poachers, and to destroy their works : with abstracts of the new game acts, and upwards of fifty valuable recipes / by John Mayer, gamekeeper.
Edition
Third edition, enlarged and improved.
Publication
London : Published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, Paternoster-Row; and Swinborne and Walter, Colchester, 1819.
Manufacture
Colchester : Swinburne and Walter, printers
Physical Description
vii, [1], 204, [12] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Autograph: J.C. Lindsay Bucknall.
Notes
Frontispiece engraved by James Shury.
Last page blank.
Includes index.
Advertisement on page [11] at end.
Variant and related titles
Sportsman's directory
Park and gamekeeper's companion
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 109
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Engravings - 1819.
Also listed under
Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, publisher.
Swinborne and Walter, publisher, printer.
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