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
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: First edition.
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.