The gentlemans recreation. : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats the doctrine, and general parts of each art, ... The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the said recreations. And for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl, and fish; not hitherto published by any. The whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures, engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
1686
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The gentlemans recreation. : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats the doctrine, and general parts of each art, ... The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the said recreations. And for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl, and fish; not hitherto published by any. The whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures, engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
Created/published
London : Printed by S. Roycroft, for Richard Blome, dwelling at the upper end of Dutchy-Lane, near Somerset-House in the Strand, MDCLXXXVI. [1686]
Description
[14], 236, [2], 280, [4] p., [1], 10, [77] leaves of plates (1 fold) : ill., coats of arms, diagrams, tables ; (fol.)
Associated name
Blome, Richard, -1705, author.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, former owner.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, former owner.
Note
With an additional title page (plate) engraved: The gentlemans recreation by R. Blome.
Title page in red and black.
Approbation of Charles II, "given ... the 14th day of February 1682/3," first preliminary leaf.
Part 2 has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed for the undertaker Richard Blome", pagination and register.
Title page in red and black.
Approbation of Charles II, "given ... the 14th day of February 1682/3," first preliminary leaf.
Part 2 has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed for the undertaker Richard Blome", pagination and register.
ESTC staff note
DFONOTE jre: reply and note edited, now understand prelim/plate issue; please recheck imprint and add 700 for engravers REPLY: JRE are you counting the engraved title page as part of the preliminary pagination? Is it conjugate to anything that is part of a quire? NOTE JRE imprint reads: "...M DC LXXXVI" [1686]; various plates signed: "F.H. Von Hoven Sculp."; "Wyke delin: Soly Sculp"; "Arthur Solil fecit"; "S. Gribelin Sculps."; "Wyat del Soly Sculp"; "Ia: Collins Sculp"; "Ni Yeates Sculp."; "Arthur S. fecit 1684.
Exhibited
Part 2 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1991. Reign of the Horse (catalog p. 35)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: p. 477.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: p. 477.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), B3213
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R23267
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R23267
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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B3213
Folger-specific note
127649. Imperfect: lacking folded plate. Some plates (e.g. folio 10) possibly printed unfinished. Manuscript notes. Plate bound second after leaf 2X1 has obscured dedication;. plate bound after ²E2 mutilated and repaired, affecting text; plate bound second after leaf ²Z1 torn and repaired, affecting engraving. Foxed and stained, affecting text. Cambridge-style binding, signed by Wallis. Provenance: Huntington Library duplicate copy