The sportsman's dictionary; or, the gentleman's companion: for town and country..

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  • Dublin: printer [sic] by Peter Hoey, 1780
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Dublin: printer [sic] by Peter Hoey, 1780. First Dublin edition, 8vo in 4s, pp. v, [1], plus unpaginated lexicon and 3 pp. of publisher's advertisements in rear; one folding table; full contemporary calf recently rebacked, new maroon gilt morocco spine label; about fine. An anonymous compilation providing "full and particular Instructions for Riding, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Farriery, Cocking, and Hawking, &c." Alson XVIII-4, 147; ESTC lists 6 copies, Columbia, Harvard, Rutgers, and Yale only in North America.

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