BEIN Uzn25 +805d Copy 1: 1 pl. wanting.

BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in gilt-tooled striated green morocco. Most of the plates are hand-colored. Armorial bookplate: Westport House. The supplement (1813), with similar provenance, is cataloged separately (SK31 .D86 1813+ Copy 1).

BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in later gilt-tooled red morocco, by Zaehnsdorf, 1913. Extra illustrated with about 70 additional plates, collected by Sir Thomas Brocklebank, with typed notes tipped in at the front of each volume, describing Brocklebank's copy. Bookplate: Harry Worcester Smith. Brocklebank's and Smith's copy of the supplement (1813) to the present work is cataloged separately (SK31 .D86 1813+ Copy 2). Accompanied by is a typescript "List of illustrations in the volumes and the further illustrations by the care of Sir Thomas Brocklebank, arranged for the library at Lordvale, the property of Harry Worcester Smith, Esq.)

Each volume with an added engraved title page; the added engraved title page in volume one reads: Rural sports, by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel ... Printed for the author, and published by I. White, Fleet Street, 1805.

The engraved title of v. 2 has imprint: Published ... March 1802 by Bunny and Gold, Shoe Lane; v. 3: Published ... 1805 by W.B. Daniel.

Most plates unsigned. Some are by Thomas Landseer and John Scott; after George Garrard, Sawry Gilpin and Stephen Elmer.

Vol. I. Dog

Fox

Stag

Observations on the origin, principles, and policy of the game laws

Hare hunting

Coursing

Hare

Rabbit

Martin

Badger

Otter

Abbreviations of the references to law cases

Index

Vol. II. Fishing and anecdotes respecting the natural history of fish

Account of rivers in England, Scotland, and Ireland

Angling

Fishponds

Nets

Laws relating to fish

Vol. III. Birds, and sketches from their natural history

Birds of game described

Statutes respecting winged game

Gamekeepers, and laws concerning

Land birds of sport described

Water fowl ditto

Shooting wild fow, directions for

Laws relating to wild fowl

Dogs used in shooting described

Laws respecting dogs

Pigeon shooting

Rook shooting

Ammunition, gun, etc., Rules for choice and management of

Coinclusion

Index.

Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, I, pp. 133-4

Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 83

Sports > Great Britain.

Hunting > Great Britain.

Fishing > Great Britain.

Falconry > Great Britain.

Fowling > Great Britain.

Game laws > Great Britain.

Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)

Aquatints - 1805.

Aquatints - Hand-colored - 1805.