Sporting.- H[owlett] (R[obert]) The School of Recreation, or, The Gentleman's Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Fishing, Racing, Shooting..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, advertisement leaf at end, browned, frontispiece and title a little frayed at edges, frontispiece laid down, light water-staining to lower margin, a few head-lines shaved, book-label to pastedown, modern calf, gilt fish motif in centre of boards and triple gilt rule border, spine gilt in compartments with creel motifs, [Thacher p.451; W&S p.110; Wing H3194], 24mo, for H. Rodes, 1684. ⁂ Rare; covering hunting, racing, hawking, riding, cock-fighting, fowling, shooting, bowling, tennis, ringing and billiards as well as fishing. Provenance: Arthur Howard Thompson (morocco book-label); George Miskin (sold his sale, Bloomsbury Auctions, 3rd May, 2012, lot 178)
Sporting.- H[owlett] (R[obert]) The School of Recreation, or, The Gentleman's Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Fishing, Racing, Shooting..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, advertisement leaf at end, browned, frontispiece and title a little frayed at edges, frontispiece laid down, light water-staining to lower margin, a few head-lines shaved, book-label to pastedown, modern calf, gilt fish motif in centre of boards and triple gilt rule border, spine gilt in compartments with creel motifs, [Thacher p.451; W&S p.110; Wing H3194], 24mo, for H. Rodes, 1684. ⁂ Rare; covering hunting, racing, hawking, riding, cock-fighting, fowling, shooting, bowling, tennis, ringing and billiards as well as fishing. Provenance: Arthur Howard Thompson (morocco book-label); George Miskin (sold his sale, Bloomsbury Auctions, 3rd May, 2012, lot 178)
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