1760 1ed Complete Sportsman Thomas Fairfax Hunting Fishing Angling Horse Racing

1760 1^ed Complete Sportsman Thomas Fairfax Hunting Fishing Angling Horse Racing

‘The Complete Sportsman’ is an 18^th-century English hunting manual by Thomas Fairfax. First published in 1760 (Westwood & Satchell), this book provides a wealth of knowledge on hunting, shooting, fishing, bowling, horse-racing, dog-breeding, and much more! Note that this first edition (undated) includes an illustrated frontispiece of a hunting scene.

Item number: #12569

Price: $499

FAIRFAX, Thomas

The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman’s recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them. Of rearing and backing colts … Of shooting, and of shooting flying…

London : Printed for J. Cooke, [1760]. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • vi, 240
• References: Westwood & Satchell, p. 90; ESTC N 44488
• Provenance: Bookplate – Baggrave Library
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather
  • Visible repair at front inner hinge
• Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (17cm x 11cm)

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