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281. SHOOTING. A Poem. K. McLemon. London, 

 1782. 



282. SHOOTING. A Poem. Faulder. London, 1784. 4to. 



283. SHOOTING. A Poem. H. J. Pye. Nbs. 282-3 are 

 given as distinct publications by Watt. I have been 

 unable to refer to a copy of Pye's poem of this date. 

 London, 1784. 



284. POEM ; written during a shooting excursion on the 

 Moors. W. Greenwood. E. Crutwell, Bath, 1787. 

 4to, pp. 25. 



285. ESSAY ON SHOOTING. Anonymous. A translation of 

 Marolles' book, interspersed with a few remarks, and 

 the addition of " The Game of this country as connected 

 with the Amusement of Shooting." In the preface to 

 the first edition the author acknowledges bis indebted- 

 ness to M. Marolles, but claims to have added much 

 new matter. (The work is practically a literal transla- 

 tion of Marolles.) In the second edition he writes of 

 the "Metaphysics of the Art," and terms gunsmiths 

 " a set of men who have little or nothing to do with 

 the manufacture of the most important part of the 

 instrument." Cadell, London, 1789, 1791. Svo, 

 313 pp. 



286. TREATISE ON GUNPOWDER, a treatise on firearms 

 and treatise on the service of artillery in the time of 

 war. Translated from the Italian of A. V. Papacino 

 D'Antoni by J. Thompson. London, 1789. Svo, 

 374 pp., plates. 



287. AMUSEMENTS. A poetical essay. H. J. Pye. Has 

 some lines on shooting, and a denunciation of the 

 practice of slaughtering hand-reared birds. J. Stock- 

 dale, London, 1790. 44 pp., 4to. 



288. THE SPORTSMAN'S DICTIONARY. Compiled by G. 

 Montague. First edition appeared in 1792. There 

 was a subsequent edition about 1803. 



