Item #61401 The Chase [a Poem]. To which is annexed Field Sports ... With a Sketch of the Author's Life; including a Preface, critical and explanatory; and some Annotations on the Text and Nature of the Poem by Edward Topham, Esq. William SOMERVILE, SOMERVILLE.
The Chase [a Poem]. To which is annexed Field Sports ... With a Sketch of the Author's Life; including a Preface, critical and explanatory; and some Annotations on the Text and Nature of the Poem by Edward Topham, Esq
The Chase [a Poem]. To which is annexed Field Sports ... With a Sketch of the Author's Life; including a Preface, critical and explanatory; and some Annotations on the Text and Nature of the Poem by Edward Topham, Esq
The Chase [a Poem]. To which is annexed Field Sports ... With a Sketch of the Author's Life; including a Preface, critical and explanatory; and some Annotations on the Text and Nature of the Poem by Edward Topham, Esq
The Chase [a Poem]. To which is annexed Field Sports ... With a Sketch of the Author's Life; including a Preface, critical and explanatory; and some Annotations on the Text and Nature of the Poem by Edward Topham, Esq

The Chase [a Poem]. To which is annexed Field Sports ... With a Sketch of the Author's Life; including a Preface, critical and explanatory; and some Annotations on the Text and Nature of the Poem by Edward Topham, Esq

London, Albion Press, 1804 [first thus].

Duodecimo, [iv], xxxx (last blank), 135 pages with 8 small wood-engraved illustrations plus an additional engraved title leaf, 4 full-page engraved plates and 4 engraved sectional title-pages with vignette illustrations. (The artwork on these eight engraved plates is by John Sartorius; some of the woodcut vignettes are signed 'Austin').

Early mottled calf (bordered with gilt rolls) later rebacked with polished calf decorated with gilt-tooled foxes' heads; corners slightly bumped and a trifle worn; light corner creases to some leaves; scattered light foxing and minor offsetting; title page lightly marked; contemporary ownership details (T. Hamilton 1807, and James Grant Duncan, Pulteneytown); an excellent copy.

William Somerville '(1675-1742), poet; of an ancient Gloustershire family; ... his poem of four books in blank verse, "The Chase", published first in 1735; his hawking poem, "Field Sports", a kind of supplement, published, 1742' ('Concise Dictionary of National Biography').

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