Author: Maxwell, William Hamilton) "by author of Wild Sports of the World"
Title: FIELD BOOK OR SPORTS AND PASTIMES of the British Islands.
Description: London, Tweedie 1833 (acc. To Cambridge Univ Libraries) Hand-coloured lithographed frontis & tinted titlepage vignette + woodcut text illustrations throughout. . Octavo publisher's blind stamped cloth spine extra gilt with scenes of fencing, shooting, fishing, horse racing (head & foot of spine chipped and small vent to hinge/edges shelf worn) viii +568pp bookplate of Henry Main Anderson & his address dated 1859 on endpapers & Titlepage margin. *An encyclopedia or dictionary of country pursuits.

Keywords: hunting shooting fishing country sport


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