Gamonia, or, The art of preserving game : and an improved method of making plantations and covers, explained and illustrated / by Lawrence Rawstorne, Esq. ; with fifteen coloured drawings by J.T. [sic] Rawlins, taken on the spot.

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Creator:: Rawstorne, Lawrence, 1774–1850
Title(s):: Gamonia, or, The art of preserving game : and an improved method of making plantations and covers, explained and illustrated / by Lawrence Rawstorne, Esq. ; with fifteen coloured drawings by J.T. [sic] Rawlins, taken on the spot.
Published/Created:: London : Published for the proprietor, by Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent Street, 1837.
London : Walter Spiers, printer, 399, Oxford Street
Physical Description:: xiv, [3], 18-208 pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sporting 1814
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sporting 1815
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1271544
Classification:: Books
Notes:: All plates are signed: "T.J. Rawlins del. & sc." Aquatint engravers vary: A.W. Reeve, J.H. Banks, H. Guest, and H. Papprill.
Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving, page 348
Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, volume II, page 127
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, pages 205-206
Errata slip tipped in at end.
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 392
BAC: British Art Center copy: Sporting 1814. First edition. Octavo. Original green morocco; gold tooling on front and back covers, gold lettering on spine, all edges gilt. In green quarter morocco, and green cloth slip-case; gold tooling on front and back covers, gold lettering on spine. Errata slip with manuscript corrections. Color plates after T.J. Rawlins. Presentation copy to C. Houghton from Rawstorne. Spine height: 10 1/8 inches.
BAC: British Art Center Sporting 1815 is the Abbey copy. With presentation inscription on half-title: Mary Barnston, from the author. Bound in contemporary green morocco.
Subject Terms:: Barnston, Mary -- Presentation inscription from Lawrence Rawstorne.
Game protection.
Game reserves.
Hunting.
Penwortham (England)
Rawstorne, Lawrence, 1774-1850 -- Presentation inscription to Mary Barnston.
Form/Genre:: Aquatints -- Hand-colored.
Authors' presentation inscriptions.
Contributors:: Rawlins, Thomas J., illustrator.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Spiers, Walter, active 1829-1867, printer.
Reeve, A. W., engraver.
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Plates: Penwortham, with the commencement of a Battue [frontispiece to part I]
Penwortham, with the conclusion of a Battue [frontispiece to part II]
Tulketh Hall and town of Preston
The Vale of Ribble
The Castle Hill
The Lower Ridding
Penwortham Church
The Round Wood
Blashaw Dam
The Crow Wood
The Hangsman's Bank
West end of the four-acre
Howick, from Blashaw Wood
East end of the four-acre
Penwortham.

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