The gentlemans recreation. . In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. ... The second part, treats of Horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting;... The whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures...
Richard Blome (1635 - 1705)
Category
Books
Date
1686
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3041041
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 parts in 1v., [14],236,[2],280,[4]p, plates . ill. . fol.. Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: clippings from dealer's catalogues, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Nineteenth-century bookplates: 1. Katharine Russell (with crest and monogram KR). 2. Katharine Corbet (1891). (Neither in Franks). Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on pastedown in Norris's hand: Hodgson 1939. Đ9/0/0. H. 7/7 39 Lot 624. Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf over boards; blind fillets; blind-tooled spine; gilt spine title 'Blomes Gentleman recreation'; sewn on five raised bands; repairs to corners.
Makers and roles
Richard Blome (1635 - 1705)