ADVERTISEMENT. 



npKE Publi filers of the prefent Edition of 

 this much-admired Treatife upon Hunt^ 

 i?ig feel themfelves impelled to Hate candidly, 

 but briefly, the motives which induced them 

 to undertake it. 



That moft fportfmen who Were not already 

 poireffed of the former editions of this valua- 

 ble library of fportitig knowledge^ have been 

 defirous of procuring it, but fought for it in 

 vain, is a fad: well known to every fre- 

 quenter of the chace : the book, therefore, 

 meets the public eye in its prefent embellifhed 

 ftate, in confequence of repeated folicitations 

 from gentlemen in almoft every quarter of 

 the kingdom, accompanied with well-grounded 

 aflfu ranees from many of them^ that it would 

 by no means be difagreeable to Mr. Beckford* 



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