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THOUGHTS on FOX and HARE HUNTING.
In a Series of Letters to a Friend. By PETER BECKFORD, Esq. A new
Edition, elegantly printed in 8vo., on Fine Wove Paper, and illustrated with
numerous Cuts, price 14s. in boards.

The present will be found to surpass all preceding Editions in elegance of paper, printing, and illustration. The Author's Notes also, which have long been omitted, are here introduced, and render it particularly desirable.

"Mr. Beckford has so well described our present practice of hunting, and given such solid and rational advice on the subject, that his Treatise has, from the date of its publication, become a general text book; indeed, all persons that delight in field sports should be in possession of it."-Scott's British Field Sports.

An ESSAY on HUNTING; comprising a great
Variety of Important Information, under the following heads :

Hunting,
Lawfulness,

Pleasure,
Pastime,

Benefits,

Game,

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Copied verbatim from the Original Edition, published in the year 1733. Elegantly
printed in 8vo. price 7s. boards; or in 4to. 12s.

Scent,
Hounds,
Horse,

"We consider the Sporting World much indebted to those who have caused the reprinting of this Work: the style is excellent. Some of the Author's ideas may, since its first publication, (1733,) have been controverted, or become obsolete, through the benefits of modern experience; but good sense, combined with practical knowledge and a playful fancy, are apparent in every subject which the Author touches on: and we candidly express our belief, that few modern volumes will afford the reader more pleasure."-Sporting Magazine, April, 1817.

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Huntsman,
Sagacity,
&c. &c. &c.

FOX HUNTERS REGALING,' a fine Engraving by Warren,
from Clennell's celebrated Picture, price 2s. 6d. Proof Impressions on India
Paper, 58.

SOMERVILLE's celebrated Poem of THE CHASE.
To which is annexed, FIELD SPORTS; with a Sketch of the Author's Life, and a
Preface, critical and explanatory: also some Annotations on the Text and Nature
of the Poem, by EDWARD TOPHAM, Esq. Elegantly printed in foolscap octavo,
and illustrated with Engravings by Mr. Scott. Price 6s. in boards.

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BRITISH FIELD Instructions in Shoc &c; with Observati and Horses; also, o all other Sporting SCOTT, Author of large Volume, 8vo Paper, with proof

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SCOTT'S SPOR membrancer of Field

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, JONES, AND CO.

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BRITISH FIELD SPORTS; embracing Practical Instructions in Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Racing, Fishing, &c.; with Observations on the Breaking and Training of Dogs and Horses; also, on the Management of Fowling Pieces, and all other Sporting Implements. By WILLIAM HENRY SCOTT, Author of the "Sportsman's Repository." In One large Volume, 8vo. Price Il. 18s. in boards; or on Royal Paper, with proof Impressions of the Plates, 31. 3s.

That we have had several good and elaborate Treatises upon particular divisions of FIELD SPORTS is readily acknowledged; but no Work of a portable nature, comprehending the whole of them. This inconvenience, however, is removed by the present Publication; the "BRITISH FIELD SPORTS" being divided into Sections, each forming a Subject which is treated separately and systematically, with all the necessary Legal Information appertaining to it. The Author's object has been to present, in as compressed a form as real utility would admit, Instructions in all the various Field Sports in Modern Practice; thereby forming a Book of general Reference on the Subject, and including, in One Volume, what could not otherwise be obtained without purchasing many expensive ones. The means he has possessed for accomplishing so desirable a purpose, he trusts, have enabled him to produce such a Work on the Subject of Field Sports, as, in point of Paper, Printing, Illustration, and Embellishment, is not to be equalled in the English Language.

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This Work is beautifully printed on fine wove Paper, hot-pressed, and illustrated with upwards of Fifty highly finished Engravings; -Thirty-four on Copper, executed in the most characteristic Style of Excellence, by those eminent Artists, Scott, Warren, Greig, Tookey, Davenport, Ranson, and Webb; from Paintings by Reinagle, Clennell, Elmer, and Barringer; the remainder are cut on wood by Clennell, Thompson, Austin, and Bewick.

"It gives us pleasure to observe the respectability of the Work, entitled 'BRITISH FIELD SPORTS.' In this kingdom, the Sports of the Field are highly characteristic and interesting. As gentlemanly diversions, they have been pursued with an avidity as keen, and a taste as universal, as the relish of Nature's beauties. A corresponding value is set on them, and an appropriate polish is added by time and practice; the various minutia in the knowledge of which, and the technical distribution of this knowledge, together with Facts, Instructions, and Anecdotes, form the basis of this valuable publication."-Farmer's Journal.

Also, by the same Author,

SCOTT'S SPORTSMAN'S POCKET-BOOK; or, Monthly Remembrancer of Field Diversions. Price 5s. in boards, or bound as a pocket-book, 7s.

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JOHNSON'S SHOOTER'S COMPANION.

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DESCRIPTION OF POINTERS AND SETTERS, as
well as of those Birds which are the object of Pursuit. OF
SCENT: and the reason why one Dog's sense of smell is
superior to another's. The Fowling-piece fully considered,
particularly as it relates to the use of Percussion Powder.
Shooting illustrated, and the Art of Shooting Flying simplified
and clearly laid down. The Game Laws familiarly explained,
&c. &c. By T. B. JOHNSON. New Edition, considerably
enlarged and improved. Price 9s. in boards, illustrated with
three Engravings by Landseer.

CONTENTS. Of DOGS: Setter, Pointer, Russian Pointer, and Springer. DISEASES to which they are liable, and methods of Cure. Of Scent. Instructions for Training, &c. GROUSE SHOOTING: Cock of the Wood, Black Cock, Red Grouse, Ptarmigan. PARTRIDGE, PHEASANT, Snipe, Woodcock, Quail, Bustard, Wild Fowl, Teal, Wigeon, Wild Duck, Plover, &c. FOWLING PIECE Barrel and Breeching; Patent Breech and Touch-hole; the Percussion Gun; Percussion Powder, and best method of making it. Component parts of Gunpowder; Force of Percussion, compared with common Powder. The GAME LAWS, illustrated by a Variety of Cases, &c. &c.

"This is a well written and well arranged production; containing much interesting information, not only to the professed Sportsman, but to those who may occasionally seek this fascinating recreation. We may add, that it is not the production of any ordinary Sportsman, but of one who can enjoy the pleasures of the Library as well as those of the Field, and can wield a Pen as well as a Fowling-Piece."-Literary Chronicle.

KUNOPEDIA:

A PRACTICAL ESSAY on

the BREAKING and TRAINING the English SPANIEL
and POINTER; to which are added, Instructions for attain-
ing the Art of Shooting Flying; more immediately addressed
to young Sportsmen, but designed also to supply the best means
of correcting the errors of some older ones. By the late W.
DOBSON, Esq. of Eden Hall, Cumberland. In One Volume
8vo. Price 10s. 6d. boards.

The SPORTSMAN'S PROGRESS; a Poem, descriptive of the
Pleasures derived from Field Sports. With thirteen Wood Cuts. Price 1s. sewed.

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BOOKS PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, JONES, AND CO.

SPORTING ANECDOTES,

Original and selected; including numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in every walk of Life, who have acquired Notoriety from their Achievements on the Turf; at the Table; and in the Diversions of the Field; to which is added, an Account of noted Pedestrians, Trotting Matches, Cricketers, &c. the whole forming a complete Delineation of the Sporting World. By PIERCE EGAN. New Edition, considerably improved and enlarged. Embellished with a characteristic Frontispiece, representing eight varieties of Sporting Amusements, and numerous other Plates. Handsomely printed in Svo. Price 12s. in boards.

"The Author has here contrived to amass together all the particulars of Horse, Dog, and Man, worthy of being known. It is a happy composition; full of whim and particular phrases, with a slip of morality in it, like a bit of lemon-peel in one's punch, and delightfully flavoured with the choicest limejuice of slang. Every leaf of the book glitters like a river in the sun. How many interesting characters, anecdotes, and speculation beckon to our minds.-Jack Cavanagh, the ball-player, revels through three pages of genuine Fives'-court prose. Captain Barclay runs his matches, trains,and spars before us.-Captain O'Kelly, the Duke of Queensberry, Colonel Thornton, Mr. Elwes, Colonel Mellish, and Major Topham, walk by us, not as the Illustrious dead,'-but alive,-ardent, -betting,-breathing,-all jollity, game, and spirit! Racers, pigeons, pedestrians, fighting-cocks, terriers, trotters, badgers, weasels, pheasants, falconers, fishermen, stoats, stags, foxes, and gentlemen, swarm, like bees.-Matches against time,-extraordinary snipe shooting,-flights of a pigeon,-all that can be interesting to the naturalist, the pugilist, or the gentleman; ' every thing by fits, and nothing long.' All persons who have heard of Blumsel, the running painter,-Wheatley, the fighting oilman,--the inimitable walking Powell,-Jack Spires, the racket-player, -the incomparable Dan Crisp,-the wonderful phenomenon mare, Mr. Wells's matchless Pipylena !-all who have read of Flying Childers,-Snowball, the fleet black greyhound,-Eclipse,-Tom Cribb,Hambletonian, and Sir Charles Bunbury!-all, we say, who have heard or read of these great names, and who respect perfection and talent wherever it can be found,-let them purchase Mr. Egan's SPORTING ANECDOTES-for they are faithful in the dispensation of fame to Man and Beast."-Baldwin's London Magazine, August and September, 1820.

A VISIT TO THE FIVES' COURT. By ROBERT CRUIKSHANK. Being a faithful Picture of that celebrated place of Amusement, for displaying manful Sports. Price 2s. accurately coloured; or may be had, framed and varnished. Price 6s.

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The Artist has been very successful in delineating, not only Portraits, but the Costume and Mannerism of all the Professors and Amateurs of the Prize Ring; amongst whom stand prominently Spring, Neat, Randall, Martin, Gregson, Cribb, Cy Davis, Isaac Bitton, Belcher, Burn, Jack Cooper, Richmond, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Soames, Mr. Watson, the Marquis of Worcester, Lord Fife, Captain Hugh Seymour, &c. &c.

JACK RANDALL'S Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius. Edited by Mr. BREAKWINDOW. Price 4s. boards.

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A Few SELECTIONS from JACK RANDALL'S SCRAPBOOK. To which are added, POEMS on the Fight for the Championship. By the same. Price 2s.

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humour, and have the peculiar merit of combining Scenes with Character, actual Portraits of 1 and Persons, enriched by Choice Anecdote and Original Remarks, Characteristic, Satirical Humorous. By BERNARD BLACKMANTLE, a Writer who has been justly described b Reviewers as the " Very Spy of the Time," the Eccentric Historian of the Present Age.

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COLOURED PLATES IN VOLUME L.

1. The Frontispiece, illustrative of the wide range of subjects characteristic of the Work. 2. The Green Room of the Opera House. Amateurs and distinguished Patrons of the Opera-certain Daughters of Terpsichore, &c.

3. Eton School Yard. First Absence called, and Dr. K- REVIEWING the Upper School. 4. Cap-ing a Proctor. An Evening Scene under the Walls of Brazen Nose College-the Proctor NOT ABLE to UNDERSTAND the joke. 5. University Exiles-Albanians doing Penance for past offences the last Cork, Peep o' Day,

a Scene of "other Times."

6. Black Matins: effects of LATE Drinking on EARLY Risers the last Bell just tolled--the University-men just turned OUT, and some of the party just turned IN.

7. The Daffy Club: a Musical Muster o the Fancy--Interior of Tom Belcher's Parlour STRIKING Likenesses-A good School for PRACTICAL Experience.

8. Monday after the Great St. Leger-Paying and Receiving at Tattersall's--Levanters, Wise Ones, Green Ones, Pigeons, Rooks, &c. 9. Flooring of Mercury-Burning the Oaks: a Scene in Tom Quadrangle, Oxford.

10. Oppidan's Museum, Eton-Court of Claims at the Christopher.

11. College Comforts: a Freshman taking possession of his Rooms.

12. Golgotha, or Place of Skulls-Sentence of Rustication, &c.

13. R—A—YS of Genius REFLECTING on the true line of Beauty at Somerset HouseSecrets worth KNOWING.

14. Green Room at Covent-Garden; numerous well-known Portraits.

15. Eton Montem, and the Mount, Salt Hill. 16. Tom Echo laid up with the Headington Fever.

17. The Maiden Brief; first Appearance among the Worthies at Westminster Hall.

18. Family Men AT FAULT: Scene near Covent Garden.

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19. Town and Gown: Scene between the Togati | numerous to particularise.

The Second Volume is now in course of Publication, in Monthly Parts, price 2s. 6d. each. Pu lished with the Magazines on the 1st of every month.

In the course of their perambulations, the Spy and the Artist intend to visit Cheltenham, Bat Bristol, Brighton, London, and various other places where any opportunity offers of selecting Scen of Character, descriptive of the Men and Manners of the age.

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