Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Title:
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.
Alternate Title(s):
Pleasvres of princes, or 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)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Uzk23 614m: Bookplate: David Wagstaff. Autograph: W.B. Adlington, 6 Weymouth St, Portland Place.
Subject Terms:
Fishing -- Early works to 1800. | Cockfighting -- Early works to 1800. | Wagstaff, David, 1882–1951 -- Bookplate (BEIN) | Adlington, W. B. -- Autograph (BEIN) | Douglas Stewart, J. Leveson -- Bookplate (BACRB) | Gibbs, Henry H. -- Autograph, 1888 (BACRB) | Riviere & Son -- Binder (BACRB)
Form/Genre:
Woodcuts.
Contributors:
Dennys, John, -1609. Secrets of angling. | Snodham, Thomas, -1625, printer. | Browne, John, -1622, publisher.