The complete manual for young sportsmen : with directions for handling the gun, the rifle, and the rod : the art of shooting on the wing : the breaking, management, and hunting of the dog : the varieties and habits of game : river, lake, and sea fishing, etc. etc. etc. / prepared for the instruction and use of the youth of America by Fank Forester ...

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Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858, The complete manual for young sportsmen , 1856

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Creator:: Herbert, Henry William, 1807–1858
Title(s):: The complete manual for young sportsmen : with directions for handling the gun, the rifle, and the rod : the art of shooting on the wing : the breaking, management, and hunting of the dog : the varieties and habits of game : river, lake, and sea fishing, etc. etc. etc. / prepared for the instruction and use of the youth of America by Fank Forester ...
Published/Created:: New York : Stringer & Townsend, 222 Broadway, 1856.
New York : John F. Trow, printer and stereotyper, Nos. 377 & 379 Broad, Corner of White Street
Physical Description:: xvi, [1], 18-480 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations. ; 20 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
SK35.5 .H47 1856
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1202652
Classification:: Books
Notes:: With added wood-engraved title page, drawn by Chaarles A. Barry. The added title page and the frontispiece are engraved on wood by Nanthaniel Orr.
BEIN Za H415 856c Copy 1: Original olive green cloth; only central design on front cover stamped in gilt. Gilt lettering & design on spine. Pictorial ornamental borders in blind on both covers. All edges plain.
BEIN Za H415 856c Copy 2: Binding variant. Imperfect: front end-paper wanting. Blue cloth; pictorial designs & lettering stamped in gold. All edges gilt.
BEIN Shirley 6443: Red cloth; pictorial designs and lettering stamped in gold; all edges gilt. Autograph: S.H.R. Thayer. Autograph: Chandler.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original gold-stamped green cloth. Signature of the author laid in. Bookplate: William Mitchell Van Winkle.
Subject Terms:: Chandler -- Autograph.
Fishing.
Herbert, Henry William -- Autograph.
Horse sports.
Hunting dogs.
Hunting.
Shooting.
Thayer, S. H. R. -- Autograph.
Van Winkle, William Mitchell -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:: Juvenile literature.
Wood-engravings -- 1856.
Contributors:: Trow, John Fowler, 1810–1886, printer.
Stringer & Townsend, publisher.
Orr, Nathaniel, engraver.
Barry, Charles A., 1830–1892, illustrator.
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