Lot 88
- 88
Markham, Gervase
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- The Young Sportman's Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, Ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Coneys, Hares and Dogs, and how to cure them. London: Sold at the Gold Ring in Little Britain, n.d. [c. 1705]
- Paper, ink, leather
48 mo (2 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.; 64 x 39 mm). Woodcut frontispiece with image of an angler. Later full green morocco, covers elaborately gilt, spine with four raised bands, title gilt in second, others with repeat overall decoration in gilt, all edges gilt, turn-ins gilt, cream silk doublures and free endpapers. In custom clamshell fitted case.
Provenance
Samuel W. Lambert (his bookplate loose in clamshell)
Literature
Not in ESTC; Poynter *1.3; Schwerdt p.13; Westwood and Satchell 188
Catalogue Note
FIRST EDITION OF THIS MINIATURE BOOK, its contents drawn from Markham's Country Contentments, Hungers Prevention, Markhams Method, and The Pleasures of Princes. Schwerdt states that this first edition is "exceedingly rare but not unique as stated in the sale catalogue of the Huth library."