Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Blaine, Delabere P. (Delabere Pritchett)
Title:
An encyclopaedia of rural sports, or, A complete account, historical, practical, and descriptive, of hunting, shooting, fishing, racing, and other field sports and athletic amusements of the present day / by Delabere P. Blaine ... ; illustrated by six hundred engravings on wood, by R. Branston, from drawings by Alken, T. Landseer, Dickes, etc.
Alternate Title(s):
Encyclopaedia of rural sports
Published / Created:
London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840.

London : Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 1240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV173 .B53 1840
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
First edition.

"Price 5s."

Issued in ten monthly parts from October 1839 through July 1840 (paged continuously).

Printer's statement from verso of half-title.

Includes index.

Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 162

BAC: British Art Center copy in the 10 original parts. Bound in publisher's original pale blue wrappers (bearing publisher's advertisements).
Subject Terms:
Sports -- Great Britain. | Hunting -- Great Britain. | Shooting -- Great Britain. | Fishing -- Great Britain.
Form/Genre:
Publishers advertisements. | Wood engravings -- 1840.
Contributors:
Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, publisher. | Spottiswoode, Andrew, printer. | Branston, Robert Edward, 1803?-1877, engraver. | Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851, illustrator. | Landseer, Thomas, 1795–1880, illustrator. | Dickes, William, 1815–1892, illustrator.