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| Recreations in Natural History, or popular Sketches of British Quadrupeds / Anonyme, 1815 | |||||||||
Recreations in natural history; or, Popular sketches of British Quadrupeds : describing
their nature, habits, and dispositions, and interspersed with original anecdotes,
embellished with numerous engravings and wood cuts, from portraits of living animals,
painted by the first masters.
/ Anonyme et
CLENNELL Luke
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« As the present work is intended to furnish a store of
amusive readings
rather than a historical and minute detail, we have not fettered our arrangement
with the shackles of system, but have assorted our subjects in such a manner as is
best suited to the nature of ’’Recreations,’’ or most capable of popular and pleasing
illustration. In the Introduction, however, the different genera of British Quadrupeds
are referred to the particular Orders, in the Linnsean classification, to which they
respectively belong.
The various instinctive powers of quadrupeds have been the object of peculiar attention;
and many original and well-authenticated anecdotes of this faculty have been occasionally
introduced.
The EMBELLISHMENTS of this work will be found to possess very superior attractions
: to the lover of rural sports, the
spirited fidelity
of the portraits (engraved from paintings of
living animals
by the first masters), will be their best recommendation 3 and the execution of the
plates will, we trust, be a sufficient passport to the notice and the praise of every
amateur of
fine engraving
. Of the numerous wood cuts with which our work is adorned, we need only say, that
ithey are, without an exception, from the masterly hand of Mr. Clennell.
To the ingenuous youth, desirous of acquiring useful knowledge on the most important
subjects; to PARENTS, solicitous to teach the juvenile mind to "look through Nature
up to Nature’s God", this work is most respectfully offered; and to the NATURALIST
it will be scarcely less acceptable, as an important manual of interesting facts illustrative
of British Zoology. » Présentation de l’éditeur (1815)
« in-8°, London, 1819. » Huth (1887)
« L’âne occupe les pp.59-64, la mule pp.132-136 et le cheval pp. 137-192. » Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval