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1699312012London: Car. Harper 1699. First Johnson edition. title printed in red and black. 8 201 7 p. 8vo 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches. Bound in contemporary speckled calf original label on spine joints a bit cracked. Signed E. Lib Guil. Wynne. First Johnson edition. title printed in red and black. 8 201 7 p. 8vo 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches. In addition to Grattius's ancient poem on hunting annotated by Thomas Johnson this edition also includes Fracastoro's 1478-1553 Alcon Caius's 1510-1573 De Canibus Britannicis on the raising of British hunting dogs; and Demetrius Pepagomenus's 1200-1300 Cynosophium Liber de Cura Canum<br /> <br /> A collection of works on the use management and care of dogs. <br /> Title page in red and black.<br /> The word "Kynosophion" on title page is in Greek characters.<br /> Each work preceeded by a divisional title page on leaves G5r K3r L1r M6v and M7r.<br /> "Cynosophium. Liber de cura canum" in Greek and Latin on facing pages. Wing G1582; ESTC R24352; Schwerdt I P. 217 Car. Harper unknown
1631243817London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison at the golden Unicorne in Pater-noster-row 1631. The fourth edition. Newly Corrected Enlarged and Adorned with many excellent Additions as may appeare by this marke pointing hand" First separate edition. 12 118 2 pp. Lacking first and final leaves blank. 1 vols. 4to in 8's 18.5 cm. 19th-century black pebbled cloth upper cover lettered simply in gilt "COUNTRY CONTENTMENTS G.M." Title page somewhat soiled outer margin with a 1/2-inch darkened streak text generally somewhat toned. The fourth edition. Newly Corrected Enlarged and Adorned with many excellent Additions as may appeare by this marke pointing hand" First separate edition. 12 118 2 pp. Lacking first and final leaves blank. 1 vols. 4to in 8's 18.5 cm. First published in 1615 STC 17342 with its companion book THE ENGLISH HUSWIFE which was printed again separately in 1623. This second edition of THE HUSBANDMANS RECREATIONS without that book's section on horses is actually the first edition ever printed separately and it is quite scarce on the market: only three copies have appeared at auction over the last quarter century the last of which brought $2983. Poynter 34.5b; STC 17344; ESTC S112050; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 242 Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Harison, at the golden Unicorne in Pater-noster-row unknown
1688254004Napoli Naples: Carlo Porpora 1688. Second edition. Engraved title. xx 229 3 pp. 4to. Mid-eighteenth century Italian polychrome enameled binding of full brown calf covers with two gilt-rolled panells central strap and scroll device built up from gouges surrounded by pointellé flowers with remnants of blue and red enamel edges gilt guaffered and painted with floral and hare design front free endpaper removed bookplate. Second edition. Engraved title. xx 229 3 pp. 4to. A history of ancient sport and games in Italy first printed in 1641. This copy in an elaborate eighteenth-century Neopolitan enameled binding with all edges gilt gauffered and painted. Graesse IV p. 113 Carlo Porpora unknown
1694240249London: Printed for the Author. To be sold by Henry Mortclock sic at the Phenix 1694. First edition. xxx 304 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 6-5/8 x 4-1/4 inches. Nineteenth-century brown calf edges red by Tout. Bookplates of "Bibliotheca Piscatoria. Collection of Robert Clarke. December 31 1892" and of the Field Museum with release. Ex-library small perforated stamp ink note and blind stamp to title shelfmark on verso. Traces of worming at foot of text from pp. x- xxx 1-10 with minor loss of a few letters. Very good. First edition. xxx 304 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 6-5/8 x 4-1/4 inches. Wing F-2064; Westwood & Satchell p.100-101; Litchfield 2 Printed for the Author. To be sold by Henry Mortclock [sic] at the Phenix unknown
1676313576London: Printed for Richard Marriott; printed by B.W. for B. Tooke 1676. Fifth edition of Walton first edition of Cotton fourth edition of Venables. Three parts in one volume. Pt. I: Engraved piscatorial title page sectional title 10 small copperplates of fish 2 pages of music; pt. II: engraved cipher on title page; license leaf present; pt III: engraved piscatorial frontispiece by F.H. Van Houe the same 10 copperplate illustrations as in part I. 1 vols. 16mo. Ninteenth century full green morocco a.e.g. Bookplate of David Pilleau. Laid into a green cloth folding box with leather label. Fifth edition of Walton first edition of Cotton fourth edition of Venables. Three parts in one volume. Pt. I: Engraved piscatorial title page sectional title 10 small copperplates of fish 2 pages of music; pt. II: engraved cipher on title page; license leaf present; pt III: engraved piscatorial frontispiece by F.H. Van Houe the same 10 copperplate illustrations as in part I. 1 vols. 16mo. The last edition published in Walton's lifetime and the first in which his name appears on the title page. "In many respects it is the most interesting of the five lifetime editions" Coigney. It is the first appearance of Cotton's work. Coigney 6; Westwood & Satchell p. 219; Wing W666 & C6381 Printed for Richard Marriott; printed by B.W. for B. Tooke unknown
1653239106London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot 1653. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Bound without terminal blank R4; leaves F4 Q6-8 and R1-3 in facsimile a few headlines just shaved; washed and pressed. Early 20th-century olive morocco gilt paneled sides with corner fleurons and central lozenge gilt spine with two red leather labels edges gilt on the rough. In red morocco-backed slipcase with chemise spine tooled in gilt with crest and motto "veritas" by James McDonald New York. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. First edition of a landmark of English literature.<br /> The present copy has A3r in uncorrected state and displays most other errors as noted by Horne although p. 114 reading VVhen not VVien; p. 245 with a notorious error is here in facsimile in the corrected state.<br /> The first edition of Walton's perennially popular and never out-of-print angling classic has always been difficult to find. Its tremendous appreciation in value over the last twenty years is an indication of how few copies indeed remain outside of permanent collections as well as how relentlessly it is still pursued by collectors. Wing W 661; Coigney 1; Horne 1; Church Catalogue I 32; Pforzheimer 1048; Grolier Wither to Prior III 193; Grolier English 31; Westwood and Satchell p. 217. Provenance: John Peachey 1749-1816 West Dean Sussex F.R.S. and M.P. 2nd Baron Selsey from 1806; bookplate dated 1782 preserved - Harry T. Pethers sale Sotheby's 5 December 1960 lot 135 £145 to Maggs - Bent Juel-Jensen acquired from Maggs February 1961 for £225 Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot unknown
