BLOME, Richard.
The Gentleman' Recreation.
The Gentleman' Recreation.
In Two Parts. The First being an Encyclopedy of the Arts and Sciences... The Second Part, treats of Horsemanship, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Fishing and Agriculture...
Stock Code 123910
London, Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome, Dwelling at the Upper End of Dutchy-Lane, near Somerset-House in the Strand, 1686
First edition; folio (420 x 260 mm); emblematic frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, 85 copper-engraved plates, further in text woodcut illustrations, initials, head and tailpieces, the odd minor tear, slightly toned; later diced calf, decorative gilt roll border, sometime rebacked, contrasting morocco lettering-piece to spine, upper joint rubbed an starting to split at head of spine, extremities rubbed with slight loss to corners, later endpapers, very good; [16], 236, [2], 280, [4]pp.
ESTC R23267.
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