16 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF [anonymous 
Note. — The Author was possibly Abel Roper, for whom the 
work was printed. 
1710. The | Tale | of the | Robin-redbreast, | a Poem. | By the author 
of The Black-Birds’ Tale. | [Quot. 2 lines.] | Entered in the Hall 
Book according to the Act. | The Second Edition. | London : 
Printed and Sold by most Booksellers of Lon | don and West- 
minster. MDCCX. 
Collation — 8vo pamphlet, 16 pp. 
1st edit. Not seen. 
1714. [Anonymous.] The Bird-Fancier’s Delight, etc. 
See Ward (T.). 
1717. [Anonymous.] Dictionarium Rusticum. 
See London (George). 
1728. [Anonymous.] The Bird-Fancier’s Recreation, etc. 
See Ward (T.), 
1730. [Anonymous.] A Description of Three Hundred Animals. 
See Boreman (T.). 
*1735. [Anonymous.] The | Sportsman’s Dictionary : or, the | Country 
Gentleman’s Companion, | In all Rural | Recreations : | With 
full and particular Instructions for | Hawking, Fishing, | Hunt- 
ing, Racing, | Fowling, Riding, | Setting, Cocking. | . . . Ex- 
tracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, 
ancient, and modern. | . . . London : | Printed for C. Hitch 
[etc.]. | MDCCXXXV. 
Collation — 2 vols. 8vo, unpaged, with front, and 24 folding 
plates. 
Includes many notices of British birds, also Hawking, Fowling, 
etc. The plates are reduced from Blome ( cf . Harting, Biblio. 
Accip. p. 32). 
Idem. 2nd edit. 1744. 2 vols. 8vo. 
Idem. Another edit. 1778. 1 vol. 4to, plates. Reprinted 
1785, 1792. 
Idem. Improved and enlarged by H. J. Pye (5th edit.). 1807. 
1 vol. 4to, 17 pi. 
1744. [Anonymous.] The Antient and Present State of the County of 
Down. 
See Harris (Walter). 
1751. [Anonymous.] A | Voyage | to | Shetland, | the | Orkneys, | and 
the | Western Isles of Scotland. | Giving | an Account, of the 
Laws, Customs, Antiqui | ties, Natural Curiosities, Fisheries, etc. 
of those | Places ; particularly the Herring-Fisheries, with the 
| present Methods of Catching, Curing, Packing, | &c. The 
Singular Sincerity, Honesty, and Tern | perance of the Inhabit- 
ants, their Religious Cere | monies, Superstitions, Charms, 
Apparitions ; And | that amazing Faculty of the Second-sight, 
