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Creator:
Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Title(s):
Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for J. Stagg in Westminster-Hall, MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:
[6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3699.S2 F54 1742+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Ik So54 +742: Uncut.
BEIN 2008 +216: 34 cm. Armorial bookplate: David Wagstaff. Binder's stamp: Saulnier [?].
Signatures: A²(+chi1[=E2]) B-D² E²(-E2).
Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling.)
Engraved head-piece.
English short title catalogue, T139403
Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750, S569
Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, II,168
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Schwerdt copy. Bound in later gilt-stamped brown calf, by Rivière and Son. Bookplate: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt.
Subject Terms:
English poetry -- 18th century.
Falconry -- Poetry.
Hunting -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Rivière and Son -- Bookbinder.
Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. -- Bookplate.
Stagg, J. -- Publisher.
Wagstaff, David, 1882-1951 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Poems.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Binders' tickets (Binding) -- Saulnier.
Wood engravings -- 1742.
Contributors:
Stagg, John, d. 1746, bookseller.
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