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LEMON, Mr. A Dissertation on the Errors of Marksmen and Gunmakers, and a Tract upon the Art of Shooting Flying; with an essay on pointers and flushers. [London: 1782].
8° (197 x 110mm). [B4] C-H4 (-H4); pp. 1-56. Engraved frontispiece. (Spotting to half title, frontispiece, title and early leaves, small waterstain on title and a few other leaves, D4 cropped at foremargin, tear to margin of F4.) Contemporary half calf (rubbed, upper joints split). Provenance: G3r with pencil sketch of a shooter in margin; pencil annotations on C2r, G4r, last 3 leaves and end blank.
ONLY EDITION. ONLY ONE COPY LOCATED IN ESTC (BL). In spite of the the unfinished sentence and catch letter 'de-' at the foot, the text of both the BL and Gloucester copies ends abruptly on p. 56. ESTC suggests there were 'possibly no more [pages] published'. The annotator of this copy also declares: 'This treatise was never finished -- and the whole written in the true conceited way of a gamekeeper. There are many good observations made but really I have read them before in other treatises -- excepting the many quaint and curious terms [which] are so momentarily mentioned'. The frontispiece shows 'Doll a celebrated pointer. The property of Mr. T. Gosden'. Not in Chute or Schwerdt.
8° (197 x 110mm). [B
ONLY EDITION. ONLY ONE COPY LOCATED IN ESTC (BL). In spite of the the unfinished sentence and catch letter 'de-' at the foot, the text of both the BL and Gloucester copies ends abruptly on p. 56. ESTC suggests there were 'possibly no more [pages] published'. The annotator of this copy also declares: 'This treatise was never finished -- and the whole written in the true conceited way of a gamekeeper. There are many good observations made but really I have read them before in other treatises -- excepting the many quaint and curious terms [which] are so momentarily mentioned'. The frontispiece shows 'Doll a celebrated pointer. The property of Mr. T. Gosden'. Not in Chute or Schwerdt.
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