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HUNTING VERSE -- GAY, John (1685-1732). Rural Sports. A poem inscribed to Mr. Pope. London: J. Tonson, 1713. 2° (333 x 215mm). (Washed.) Calf by Riviere. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1413). FIRST EDITION. Gay includes 'the hunting of stag, fox, otter and hare; pheasant shooting, partridge shooting, hawking and fly fishing'. SCHWERDT COPY. Foxon G66; Schwerdt I, p. 201.
SOMERVILE, William (1675-1742). Field-sports. A Poem. London: J. Stagg, 1742. 2° (331 x 215mm). (Washed.) Calf gilt by Riviere, gilt edges (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this lesser known sporting poem by Somervile, largely on hawking, but also embracing 'shooting flying, setting, angling'. Foxon S569; Schwerdt I. p. 168.
[WILKES, Wetenhall (d. 1751)]. Hounslow-Heath, a Poem. London: C. Corbett, 1748. 4° (238 x 175mm). (Numerous stab-marks, title a little tattered and soiled, some corners creased.) Late 19th-century morocco-backed boards. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 2152). A reissue of the 1747 edition, with the imprint date reset. ESTC locates 2 copies of the 1747 first issue (BL, Princeton) and 3 copies of the present issue (BL, Cornell, Cincinnati). SCHWERDT COPY. Foxon W462; Schwerdt II, p. 297: 'An interesting description of hare, fox and stag hunting as it was carried on in the first half of the 15th century near London'.
BURGER (Gottfried August (1747-1794). The Chase and William and Helen: Two Ballads from the German, translated by Walter Scott. Edinburgh: Mundell and Son for Manners and Miller, and sold by T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1796. 4° (254 x 191mm). (Title soiled, B3 and D2 with long closed tear slightly affecting text.) Mid-19th-century green morocco gilt (rubbed). Provenance: Joseph Gillow (title inscribed 'Joseph Gillow Esq from the Translator') -- Barnton (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of Scott's second published work. The Chase is about stag-hunting. Mellon/Podeschi 71.
Together with 5 others in verse, 4°, comprising: Theophilus Swift, The Gamblers (1777); Virgil, An Elegy in a Riding House (1778); Richard Gardiner, September. A Rural Poem (Lynn Regis [i.e. King's Lynn], 1789); W. Somerville, Hobbinol, Field Sports and the Bowling Green (1813), woodcuts by Nesbit and Thurston, contemporary red morocco; and A Forest Ramble (1818), ex-Schwerdt.
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SOMERVILE, William (1675-1742). Field-sports. A Poem. London: J. Stagg, 1742. 2° (331 x 215mm). (Washed.) Calf gilt by Riviere, gilt edges (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this lesser known sporting poem by Somervile, largely on hawking, but also embracing 'shooting flying, setting, angling'. Foxon S569; Schwerdt I. p. 168.
[WILKES, Wetenhall (d. 1751)]. Hounslow-Heath, a Poem. London: C. Corbett, 1748. 4° (238 x 175mm). (Numerous stab-marks, title a little tattered and soiled, some corners creased.) Late 19th-century morocco-backed boards. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 2152). A reissue of the 1747 edition, with the imprint date reset. ESTC locates 2 copies of the 1747 first issue (BL, Princeton) and 3 copies of the present issue (BL, Cornell, Cincinnati). SCHWERDT COPY. Foxon W462; Schwerdt II, p. 297: 'An interesting description of hare, fox and stag hunting as it was carried on in the first half of the 15th century near London'.
BURGER (Gottfried August (1747-1794). The Chase and William and Helen: Two Ballads from the German, translated by Walter Scott. Edinburgh: Mundell and Son for Manners and Miller, and sold by T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1796. 4° (254 x 191mm). (Title soiled, B3 and D2 with long closed tear slightly affecting text.) Mid-19th-century green morocco gilt (rubbed). Provenance: Joseph Gillow (title inscribed 'Joseph Gillow Esq from the Translator') -- Barnton (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of Scott's second published work. The Chase is about stag-hunting. Mellon/Podeschi 71.
Together with 5 others in verse, 4°, comprising: Theophilus Swift, The Gamblers (1777); Virgil, An Elegy in a Riding House (1778); Richard Gardiner, September. A Rural Poem (Lynn Regis [i.e. King's Lynn], 1789); W. Somerville, Hobbinol, Field Sports and the Bowling Green (1813), woodcuts by Nesbit and Thurston, contemporary red morocco; and A Forest Ramble (1818), ex-Schwerdt.
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