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Commerce, | and all Sorts of | Country- Affairs. | Containing more 
particularly, | . . . Hawking, Fowling, Cock-fighting, Fishing, 
etc. . . . Breeding Feeding and Managing . . . Singing-birds . . . 
[etc. 31 lines.] | Illustrated with a great number of Wooden and 
Copper Cuts. | The Second Edition, revised, corrected and Im- 
proved ; | with the Addition of above a thousand articles. | 
London : Printed for J. Nicholson in Little-Britain. [etc. 2 
lines.] 1717. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo. A to Occc unpaged, with 2 folding 
plates, and cuts. Contains a number of articles on birds and 
hawking alphabetically arranged. 
1st edit., 1704 (Not seen) ; 3rd edit., 1726, not differing from 
the 2nd ; another edit., 1728 (Not seen). Also met with divided 
in two volumes, with a separate title to the second part. 
Longcroft (Charles John), ca. 1857 
The interest of this author’s work below mentioned lies 
in the Appendix, which comprises a “ Natural History of 
Hayling Island and Its Vicinity ” with woodcut illustrations. 
1857. A Topographical Account of the Hundred of Bosmere, in the County 
of Southampton, including the parishes of Havant, Warblington 
and Hayling. London : 1857. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo, pp. vi + list of plates + 1 1. errata + 
pp. 343, with maps, plans and numerous ill. 
The Appendix contains a list of birds at pp. 316-22, with 5 figs. 
Note . — “ A Topographical Account of the Hundred of Bos- 
mere ” was issued anonymously in 1817. Not seen. Vide 
Clarke’s Guide to Hayling, 1836. 
Lord (Thomas), ob. ca. 1796 
Lord, who appears to have been a professional painter, 
was a protege of the Rev. M. W. Peters, R.A., and published 
his Ornithology under the latter’s “ inspection and patronage.” 
Indeed, the system of patronage so generally in vogue in his 
day may be advanced as an excuse for his egregious title-page. 
Dr. Coues remarks : “ Given a snob with an ‘ entire new 
system of ornithology ’ — a royal chaplain for a patron — and 
a reverend pedagogue to correct and embellish the text, all 
together on one engraved title page — and the infallible 
result estops criticism.” Newton deems the text “ ungram- 
matical, pretentious and worthless.” Needless to say, the 
