The Sporting Dictionary, and rural Repository of general Information upon every Subject appertaining to the Sports of the Field.

TAPLIN, William.

Published by London, Thomas Maiden for Vernor & Hood, Longman & Rees, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, and J. Harris, 1803., 1803

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2 vols, 8vo, pp. I: [4], [vii]-xii, 526, II: [2], 506, with frontispiece to each volume and 4 copper-engraved plates; foxed in places, otherwise a very good set; later 19th-century half-calf with marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments with gilt red morocco lettering-pieces and gilt green morocco volume numbers, coloured endpapers; rubbed with minor chipping to board-edges, spines darkened, hinges repaired; bookplates of Mary Holbrook Wilson, dated 1946.First edition of Taplin's Sporting Dictionary, with entries relating to farriery as well as riding, breaking and training, and hunting and racing. An early publication in this genre: such sporting works would develop with great success over the following century. Not in Dingley; not in Mellon.

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Title
The Sporting Dictionary, and rural Repository of general Information upon every Subject appertaining to the Sports of the Field.
Author
TAPLIN, William.
Publisher
London, Thomas Maiden for Vernor & Hood, Longman & Rees, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, and J. Harris, 1803.
Publication year
1803
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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