![S[MITH], J[ohn] (1614-1704). The Experienc'd Fowler: or, the Gentleman, Citizen, and Country-Man's Pleasant and Profitable Recreation. London: for J. Sprint and G. Conyers, 1697.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07300_0547_000(113238).jpg?w=1)
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S[MITH], J[ohn] (1614-1704). The Experienc'd Fowler: or, the Gentleman, Citizen, and Country-Man's Pleasant and Profitable Recreation. London: for J. Sprint and G. Conyers, 1697.
12° (105 x 48mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 3 illustrations in the text, one full-page. (Light discolouration.) 19th-century calf, gilt falcon stamped on sides, black title-label on spine (a little rubbed). Provenance: Godfrey Stubbinge, 1703 (purchase inscription, 6d, on recto of frontispiece) -- Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833, antiquary, editor, bibliophile and co-founder of the Roxburgh Club, bookplate hidden under a subsequent one) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 1946).
SCHWERDT COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. Smith's vade-mecum encompassed all aspects of hawking, fowling, and snaring, the keeping of wild and domestic birds and singing birds (with their diseases and cures), and the method of 'destroying all manner of vermine'. The advertisement leaf describes an equally rare little treatise on fishing, also by Smith. Schwerdt II, p.141: 'A rare and quaint little book. It contains a large number of useful hints on bird-catching'; Wing S4108C (locating only the copies at BL, the William Clark Library and Yale); not in Harting.
12° (105 x 48mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 3 illustrations in the text, one full-page. (Light discolouration.) 19th-century calf, gilt falcon stamped on sides, black title-label on spine (a little rubbed). Provenance: Godfrey Stubbinge, 1703 (purchase inscription, 6
SCHWERDT COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. Smith's vade-mecum encompassed all aspects of hawking, fowling, and snaring, the keeping of wild and domestic birds and singing birds (with their diseases and cures), and the method of 'destroying all manner of vermine'. The advertisement leaf describes an equally rare little treatise on fishing, also by Smith. Schwerdt II, p.141: 'A rare and quaint little book. It contains a large number of useful hints on bird-catching'; Wing S4108C (locating only the copies at BL, the William Clark Library and Yale); not in Harting.
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