Country contentments, or, : the husbandman's recreations, containing the wholesome experience, in which any ought to recreate himself, after the toyle of more serious business; as namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with grayhounds, and the lawes of lease, shooting in the longbow or crossbow, bouling, tennis, balloone: the whole art of angling, and the use of the fighting cock / by G. Markham
- Bib ID:
- 1533268
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
- Edition:
- The eighth edition, newly corrected, enlarged, and adorned with many excellent additions, as may appear by this worke ...
- Description:
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- London : Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster, and George Sawbridge ..., 1656
- [4], 92, [4] p. ; 20 cm (4to)
- Notes:
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- Contents list.
- Printed marginal annotations.
- Head-pieces and ornate initials; printer's decoration.
- " ... grayhounds, and the lawes of the leash" -- t.p. of 1615 ed. [Wing]
- Library's copy has MS marginal notes, and 10 lines of notes at end, in 17th century hand.
- 202/4/59.
- Cited In:
- Wing M622.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1656
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