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HARE COURSING -- GARDINER, John Smallman. The Art and the Pleasures of Hare-Hunting. London: R. Griffiths, 1750. 8° (186 x 107mm). viii 56p. (A trifle browned and spotted, brown stain in fore-corners at beginning and end.) Contemporary half calf (rubbed, upper cover detached). FIRST EDITION of this 'classic on hare hunting' (Schwerdt). 5 copies located in ESTC. Further editions appeared in 1781 and 1807, and a French translation in 1861. Schwerdt I, p.197; Souhart 207.
Hunting vindicated from Cruelty in a letter to the monthly reviewers. 'Spitzbergen': printed. Sold London: B. Law, Exeter: R. Trewman, Plymouth: M. Haydon and Son, 1782. 8° (195 x 121mm). 30p. (Half-title lightly soiled.) Later wrappers, slipcase. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1576). Schwerdt I, p. 260. UNRECORDED IN ESTC.
The Hare; or, Hunting Incompatible with Humanity, written as a stimulus to youth towards a proper treatment of animals. London: Vernon and Hood, 1799. 18° (135 x 83mm). [6] 187 [3]p. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette. With one leaf of advertisements at end rather than two. (Hole in H5&6 with loss to 5 and 4 lines of text, occasional light spotting.) 19th-century half roan (rubbed). FIRST EDITION of a tract written from the hare's point of view. Schwerdt I, p. 230.
[PURWENT, Samuel]. A Dialogue between a Lawyer and a Country Gentleman, upon the Subject of the Game Laws, relative to Hares, Partridges and Pheasants. London: for J. Wilkie and P. Uriel, 1771. 8° (205 x 120mm). 54 [2]p., 3 folding synoptical tables at end. 19th-century red hard-grained half morocco, top edge gilt (a few marks). Third edition. 2 copies located in ESTC. Schwerdt I, p. 141: 'should appeal to all those who are interested in the development of the game laws in England'; and 7 others, comprising the 1807 edition of the first work; An Essay on Hunting (1733); Essays on Hunting (Southampton, 1788), one copy of this edition located in ESTC; William Blane, Cynegetica (1788), new edition; John Beard, Diary of Fifteen Years' Hunting (Bath, 1813); H.J.L., Hints on Hare-Hunting (n.d.), presentation copy, ex-Schwerdt; and an early 19th-century tract on bull-baiting in 2 parts. (11)
Hunting vindicated from Cruelty in a letter to the monthly reviewers. 'Spitzbergen': printed. Sold London: B. Law, Exeter: R. Trewman, Plymouth: M. Haydon and Son, 1782. 8° (195 x 121mm). 30p. (Half-title lightly soiled.) Later wrappers, slipcase. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1576). Schwerdt I, p. 260. UNRECORDED IN ESTC.
The Hare; or, Hunting Incompatible with Humanity, written as a stimulus to youth towards a proper treatment of animals. London: Vernon and Hood, 1799. 18° (135 x 83mm). [6] 187 [3]p. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette. With one leaf of advertisements at end rather than two. (Hole in H5&6 with loss to 5 and 4 lines of text, occasional light spotting.) 19th-century half roan (rubbed). FIRST EDITION of a tract written from the hare's point of view. Schwerdt I, p. 230.
[PURWENT, Samuel]. A Dialogue between a Lawyer and a Country Gentleman, upon the Subject of the Game Laws, relative to Hares, Partridges and Pheasants. London: for J. Wilkie and P. Uriel, 1771. 8° (205 x 120mm). 54 [2]p., 3 folding synoptical tables at end. 19th-century red hard-grained half morocco, top edge gilt (a few marks). Third edition. 2 copies located in ESTC. Schwerdt I, p. 141: 'should appeal to all those who are interested in the development of the game laws in England'; and 7 others, comprising the 1807 edition of the first work; An Essay on Hunting (1733); Essays on Hunting (Southampton, 1788), one copy of this edition located in ESTC; William Blane, Cynegetica (1788), new edition; John Beard, Diary of Fifteen Years' Hunting (Bath, 1813); H.J.L., Hints on Hare-Hunting (n.d.), presentation copy, ex-Schwerdt; and an early 19th-century tract on bull-baiting in 2 parts. (11)
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