Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Somerville, William, 1675-1742
Title:
Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for J. Stagg in Westminster-Hall, MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:
[6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3699.S2 F54 1742+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Ik So54 +742: Uncut.

BEIN 2008 +216: 34 cm. Armorial bookplate: David Wagstaff. Binder's stamp: Saulnier [?].

Signatures: A²(+chi1[=E2]) B-D² E²(-E2).

Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling.)

Engraved head-piece.

English short title catalogue, T139403

Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750, S569

Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, II,168

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Schwerdt copy. Bound in later gilt-stamped brown calf, by Rivière and Son. Bookplate: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt.
Subject Terms:
Falconry -- Poetry. | English poetry -- 18th century. | Hunting -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. | Stagg, J. -- Publisher. | Wagstaff, David, 1882–1951 -- Bookplate. | Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. -- Bookplate. | Rivière and Son -- Bookbinder.
Form/Genre:
Poems. | Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Binders' tickets (Binding) -- Saulnier. | Wood engravings -- 1742.
Contributors:
Stagg, John, d. 1746, bookseller.