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COOTE, Robert. The Compleat Marksman: or, the true art of shooting-flying: a poem, London: C. Henderson, [?1760].
8°, woodcut headpiece and initial (title soiled, small part of title torn away, laminated repair just affecting one letter, "no. 44" written in ink to title and verso of final leaf, verso of final leaf browned, very few light stains), 19th-century half calf (spine and extremities somewhat rubbed). Provenance: Francis Hubert Barclay, bookplate.
FIRST EDITION. Only three copies are located by ESTCm (Bodleian Library, Oxford; Houghton Library, Harvard; Yale University). Bound together with George Markland's Pteryplegia: or, the art of shooting-flying, a poem (lacking the last leaf and the plate, "third edition", London, 1767). Schwerdt IV, p. 23.
8°, woodcut headpiece and initial (title soiled, small part of title torn away, laminated repair just affecting one letter, "no. 44" written in ink to title and verso of final leaf, verso of final leaf browned, very few light stains), 19th-century half calf (spine and extremities somewhat rubbed). Provenance: Francis Hubert Barclay, bookplate.
FIRST EDITION. Only three copies are located by ESTCm (Bodleian Library, Oxford; Houghton Library, Harvard; Yale University). Bound together with George Markland's Pteryplegia: or, the art of shooting-flying, a poem (lacking the last leaf and the plate, "third edition", London, 1767). Schwerdt IV, p. 23.