Mayer, John

The Sportsman's Directory;

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[by Swinborne, Walter and Taylor in Colchester for] Baldwin and Cradock [etc] London 1828 or, Park and Gamekeeper's Companion: Containing Instructions for Breeding, Feeding, and Breaking Dogs; Hunting, Coursing, and Shooting; Fishing, Preserving Game, and Decoys; Breeding Pheasants, Partidges, Pigeons, Rabbits, &c. &c. Also, a Description of all Kinds of Poaching; how to Detect Poachers, and to Destroy their Works. Upwards of Fifty Valuable Recipes, and Abstracts of the Last Game Laws. Engraved frontispiece and woodcut illustrations in the text. Fifth Edition. 12mo. [185 x 107 x 17 mm]. vii, [i], 214, [1] pp. Bound in contemporary quarter purple roan, cloth sides, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second and tooled with a fleuron in the others, plain endleaves, marbled edges. Spine and corners worn. The frontispiece and title are a little browned and have a crease, but a decent copy. First published in Colchester in 1815. Mayer was himself a gamekeeper. Signature and bookplate of Oliver Collett.

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