Blome, Richard

FIRST EDITION, 2 parts in one volume, folio (405 x 260mm.), title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 84 (of 85) plates, comprising 10 plates of coats-of-arms of "Benefactors to this work", 29 plates in part 1 and 45 plates in part 2, one printed recto/verso in part 1, illustrations in text, nineteenth-century calf, lacking one plate in part 1 (symbolic general title plate to "An encyclopedy of ye arts & sciences"), one plate torn and lacking corner (of fortification, part 1, p.170), tear in p.1 part 2 repaired without loss, binding rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired

together with 9 hand-coloured plates from this work, 8 of stag-hunting, loose in a modern cloth box (2)

BAL RIBA 3770; Harting 41; Schwerdt I:72; Swift, Bibliotheca accipitraria II, 65.01; Wing B3213

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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The first part of this work comprises arts and sciences, including arithmetic, astronomy, astrology, navigation, dialling, architecture, music and optics; the second part horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing and agriculture.