Cox , Nicholas. THE GENTLEMANS RECREATION. Cresset Press, 1928.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: . 1928, no dustjacket, clean boards, limited ed, 556/650, clean bright copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
Cox, Nicholas. The Gentlemans Recreation. The Cresset Press, London, 1928.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 650 numbered copies.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good
Description: This is copy no. 261 of an edition limited to 650 copies. xxiv, 136 pp. Publisher's quarter parchment-paper over paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Spine darkened & lettering dulled. Boards marked. Internally clean. No ownership names. Folding frontis and illustrated title-page. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
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Description: Folding frontis, 8.25 x 6.5", vellum backed boards, 136pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and rubbed, hinges loose, ink name of former owner on front fly, frontis torn, eps unevenly browned, in margin, in a browned, worn dustjacket with the front panel separated from the rest. LIMITED TO 650 NUMBERED COPIES. (This is #479).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Cox, Nicholas. The Gentleman's Recreation. The Cresset Press Limited, London, 1928.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Limited edition, #534/650. Quarter vellum paper, tan paper boards. xxiv, 136 pp. B&W folding frontis. A few small spots of wear to edges. Some foxing and staining to vellum paper, blue scuff to foot of rear board. Offsetting to last page. Full original title page included after preface: "The Gentleman's Recreation: Or, a Treatise Giving the Best Descriptions for Hunting and Killing all manner of Chases used in England; with the Terms of Art belonging thereunto. Also a short account of some peculiar Beasts not usually Hunted in England."
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
COX, Nicholas. The Gentleman's Recreation. Cresset Press, London, 1928.
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Condition: Fine
Description: pp xxiv, 136, folding frontis, quarter vellum on boards, teg, faint traces of foxing, mostly at end, dj nicked round edges, half inch tear with small patch lost at bottom of lower panel, getting a bit soiled. An eighteenth century manual on hunting every kind of animal Size: 8vo,
Seller: P.H. Whetman (P.B.F.A.), London, United Kingdom
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Description: No. 201 of 650 copies. Folding frontispiece, vignette title page. xxiv, 136 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Schwerdt I, pp. 122-23 (First edition); Westwood & Satchell p. 68-9 (First edition) Half vellum, beige boards. Light foxing to endpapers, else near fine Folding frontispiece, vignette title page. xxiv, 136 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition of 650 copies, this copy number 110, xxiv, 136 pp., folding illustrated chart of "The Antient Hunting Noats", small tear at joint, original paper board, cloth spine, a few spots on boards, A very nice copy of a good limited edition with a lengthy preface concerning the author and the book Size: 8.5 x 6.75 Ins
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Cox, Nicholas. GENTLEMAN'S RECREATION, HUNTING.|THE. The Cresset Press, London, 1928.
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Description: 8vo. quarter vellum over paper boards. xxiv, 136 pages. Preface by E. D. Cuming. Limited to 650 numbered copies, this copy being unnumbered, and printed in Monotype Cochin. A fine copy. Reprint of the 1697 fourth enlarged edition (the original edition was 1674), cfGee p. 69. cfHigginson Smith p. 408. cfRobb p. 208. Illustrated with a large foldout frontispiece. Chapters on hunter's terms, dogs, coursing, hunting roe and red deer, hare, badger, otter, fox, wild cats, boar, beaver, elk, the wolf in Ireland, wild goat in Wales, etc. quarter vellum over paper boards
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$170.84 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. xxiv, 136. with half-title. 1 folding plate. original quarter vellum, top edge gilt. Edition Limited to 650 copies (a further 50 copies were printed on hand-made paper & bound in full vellum). Reprint of the 1674 Edition. cfGee p. 69. cfHigginson Smith p. 408. cfRobb p. 208.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
COX, Nicholas. The Gentleman's Recreation. The Cresset Press Limited, 1928.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This copy is number 111 and is limited to 650 copies w/ 6-fold chart w/ a preface by E. D. Cuming w/ vellum boards 136 pp. Nicholas Cox The Cresset Press Limited 1928 9" x 7.25"
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.