The Sportsman's Cabinet;

Or A Correct Delineation of the Various Dogs Used in the Sports of the Field: Including the Canine Race in General.

by a Veteran Sportsman [William Taplin] 

First edition, two volumes.  London:  J. Cundee, 1803-1804  

Hardback is overall in GOOD condition.

• Half-calf covers with marbled boards. 
• Boards show some wear, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are worn, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spines have cloth tape from an old repair, with chipped ends.  
• Binding is partially disbound.  Boards are loose, and outer signatures as well; remainder of signatures are shaken.  See photos. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some staining, wear, writing, edgewear.  
• Frontispiece is present.
• Ex libris Horace Seymour.  Bookplate at front pastedown.  
• Illustrations are bright and clear, plates are age toned, with foxing especially to margins and reverse.  See photos.  
• Interior exhibits scattered foxing and staining, light edgewear, some small corner turn-ins.
• Inside pages have some stray marks, a blank sheet in Volume 1 between pp. 62-63.  
• PS2025.0424

586 pages. 9 x 11.25 inches

The FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this illustrated work on different dog breeds and their use in sports, by William Taplin.  The third published English dog book, perennially admired for the excellence of its illustrations.  Volume 1 published 1803, Volume 2 published 1804.  Volume 1 is illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, and twelve full-page engraved plates by John Scott after John Michael Rysbrack & Philip Reinagle.  Volume 2 is illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, and eleven plates.  Also contains wood-engraved text vignettes by Thomas Bewick, a pioneer in the medium.  Condition is Good on account of wear to the boards and partly disbound state.  Interior has scattered staining and plates are foxed, but text block is overall quite bright.

The "series of engravings of every distinct breed, from original paintings, taken from life" is the centerpiece of the work.  The title page goes on, however, to note that the plates are "interspersed with beautiful Vignettes, engraved on Wood."  All these illustrations are accompanied by "a comprehensive, historical and systematic description of the different species; with a review of the various diseases to which they are subject, and the most approved and efficacious modes of treatment and cure.  To which is added, a scientific disquisition upon the Distemper, Canine Madness, and the Hydrophobia."  Authorship is attributed to A Veteran Sportsman (William Taplin).

Inside the front cover of each volume is a bookplate with the name Horace Seymour and family crest with the motto "Foy Pour Devoir" -- Faith for Duty. 

Printed and Published for the Proprietors, by J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane and Paternoster Row.  Sold by T. Hurst, Paternoster Row, T. Ostell, Ave-Maria-Lane, and Chapple, Pall-Mall, all in London.

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