1686 copperplate engraving R. Blome The Gentlemen's Recreation - The iconographical and scenographical lines of a fort, plate 1 hotsell - 14x9.6in

Copperplate engraving from The Gentlemen's Recreation, An Encyclopedy of the Arts and Sciences ... Horsemanship, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Fishing and Agriculture. With a Short Treatise of Cock-Fighting. by Richard Blome edited in London in 1686 by S. Roycroft

**Frame and mat not included**

First edition of one of the great 17th-century sporting titles. It covers all subjects of interest and use to a gentleman, beginning with summaries of logic, natural philosophy, astronomy, navigation, warfare, drawing and painting and handling in considerable detail horsemanship, hawking, hunting, and agriculture. Many of hotsell its plates are dedicated to a member of the nobility or gentry, some of whom lent their knowledge and expertise to the work


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