BLOME, Richard & Nicolas COX. The Gentleman's Recreation; in Two Parts; the first being an encyclopaedia of arts and sciences ... the second part, treats of horsemanship hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing and agriculture; with a short treatise on cock-fighting, London, by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome, 1686, 2 vols. in one, lge. 2°, lge. paper copy, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured additional title, 9 plates of subscibers' coats of arms, and 78 plates only (of 86), woodcut illustrations (lacking "Horsemanship" plate dedicated to Sir John Skeffington, and plate X of the coats of arms [both "often missing" (Schwerdt)], and 6 others, several clean tears, neatly repaired, occasional slight dampstaining to upper margin), 20th-century panelled calf, spine gilt (extremities rubbed). [Schwerdt I, 72; Wing B3213]