Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations , 1614
- Title(s):
The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations : containing a discourse of the generall art of fishing with the angle, or otherwise, and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyetting of the fighting cocke. Being a worke neuer in that nature handled by any former author.
- Additional Title(s):
Pleasvres of princes, or Good mens recreations
Pleasures of princes
Good mens recreations
- Published/Created:
- London : Printed by T.S. for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1614.
- Physical Description:
- [2], 51, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsSH431 .M37 1614Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1337077
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN Uzk23 614m: Bookplate: David Wagstaff. Autograph: W.B. Adlington, 6 Weymouth St, Portland Place.
A prose paraphrase with additions of "The secrets of angling" by John Dennys.
Anonymous. By Gervase Markham.
STC gives printer's name as Thomas Snodham.
Issued also as the 3rd part of his The English husbandman (STC and ESTC treat the 2nd and 3rd parts as one single work).
Signatures: A-G⁴ (G4 wanting, blank?)
Woodcut vignette on t.p., head-piece and initials.
Printed chiefly in black letter type.
English short title catalogue, S112058
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 17356
Poynter, F.N.L. Bibliography of Gervase Markham 1568?-1637, 21.1(ii)
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in gilt and blind-tooled dark green morocco, by Riviere & Son. Armorial bookplate with inscription "J. Leveson Douglas Stewart Glenogil" and motto "Virescit vulnere virtus" on inside of upper board. Ms inscription "Henry H. Gibbs St Dunstans 1888" with "Bought at the Douglas Stewart sale" added at foot in purple ink on recto of first free end-paper. - Subject Terms:
- Adlington, W. B. -- Autograph (BEIN)Cockfighting -- Early works to 1800.Douglas Stewart, J. Leveson -- Bookplate (BACRB)Fishing -- Early works to 1800.Gibbs, Henry H. -- Autograph, 1888 (BACRB)Riviere & Son -- Binder (BACRB)Wagstaff, David, 1882-1951 -- Bookplate (BEIN)
- Form/Genre:
- Woodcuts.
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