The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the art of angling in all its various branches ; the breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them ; the rearing and backing colts ; the managing race horses, hunters, &c. ; horse racing ; fox hunting ; hare hunting ; hart or buck hunting ; otter hunting ; rabbet hunting ; ferret hunting ; coursing ; the breeding and ordering of all sorts of dogs for the gun or chase, &c. ; the breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. ; the finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game ; shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. ; bowling, &c., &c., &c., &c. ; together with many other articles equally curious, too numerous to mention here ; and including many useful directions to horse feeders, grooms, and many others, respecting the dieting of horses, riding a hunting match, &c., &c., the whole made plain and easy to every capacity /
by: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Published: (1795)