30 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



Cock-fighting, with reflections on Betting, etc. By 

 Nicholas Coxe, Esq. London : Printed and sold by 

 J. Smeeton, 148, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, 

 n. d. [1815?]. Svo. 



41. BLOME (Richard). The Gentleman's Recrea- 

 tion. In two Parts. The first being an Encyclopedy 

 of the Arts and Sciences, to wit, an abridgement 

 thereof .... The second Part treats of Horse- 

 manship, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Fishing, and 

 Agriculture. With a short treatise of Cock-fighting 

 for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and 

 fiofhtinsf them. All which are collected from the 

 most authentick authors, and the many gross errors 

 therein corrected, with great enlargements made by 

 those well experienced in the said Recreations. And 

 for the better Explanation thereof, great variety of 

 useful Sculptures, as Nets, Traps, Engines, etc., are 

 added for the taking of Beasts, Fowl, and Fish, not 

 hitherto published by any. The whole illustrated with 

 about an hundred ornamental and useful Sculptures 

 engraven in copper relating to the several subjects. 

 London. Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome, 

 dwelling at the upper end of Dutchy-Lane, near 

 Somerset-House in the Strand. 16S6. folio. 



The title of this work, " The Gentleman's Recreation " (printed 

 in black and red), was first used by Nicholas Cox in 1674, and 

 was perhaps suggested by Markham's " Husbandman's Recrea- 

 tion," 161 1. 



The second part, founded on a translation of Les Ruses Intio- 

 centes, 1660, and on the v/orks of Markham and Turbervile, has 

 a separate title (in black only), worded as in the lower half of 



