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HUNTING SONGS -- COTTAM, T. A Song on a Buck-Hunting at Stoneyhurst . Preston: E. Sergent, [c.1820]. 16° (130 x 88mm). Woodcut title-vignette. (A little browned). Polished calf gilt by Riviere. Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate and gilt arms on spine; his sale, 22 May 1939, lot 379). An amusing little poem on a stag hunt mentioning many places in mid-Lancashire. Schwerdt I, p.121. [HAWKE, Martin Bladen, Baron]. Howell Wood; or, the Raby Hunt, in Yorkshire. A New Hunting Song . Pontefract: John Fox 1806. 8° (180 x 115mm). (Lacks the final blank, title a trifle spotted.) Polished calf gilt by Riviere, top edges gilt. Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate and gilt arms on spine; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1505). SCHWERDT COPY. Third edition of a popular work which continued to be printed until the middle of the century. Schwerdt I, p.234. [TEMPLER, George]. The Chulmleigh Club . s.n., 1814. 3½ lines of printed verse on p.5 changed to 1½ in manuscript, probably authorially. [ Bound with ]: A Day at Ashbury . s.n., 1822. [ and ]: A Party at Stover . s.n., 1823. 3 works in one volume, 8° (169 x 102mm.) Polished calf gilt by Riviere, top edges gilt. Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate and gilt arms on spine). Schwerdt II, p.255: 'These three poems on memorable runs were written by George Templer, the Master of the North Devon Fox-hounds. They give a humorous description of hunting as it was practised about a hundred years ago, with personal references to sportsmen, hunt-servants and horses. A son of the famous Dick Knight was first whipper-in to this pack'; and 5 others similar including: Martin Hawke's Poems on Hunting (London, 1842), Schwerdt copy; and W. Oxberry and L. Phillips's The First of September; or, Cockney Sportsmen (London, c. 1840). (7)