BY T. B. JOHNSON,
Author of the Shooter’s Companion, &c. &c.
In offering the present work to the Sporting World, the Publishers do not deem any apology necessary, as there is no Book on sale professedly of a similar character, nor one that will furnish a Sportsman with that information which he may desire on the various Field Sports of the present day.
Under such circumstances, the Publishers conceive that a “Sportsman’s Cyclopædia” will be not only acceptable to those who follow the Hounds, pursue the Feathered Tribes, frequent the Lake, or the Stream, or attend the Course, but also to the Public in general.
They, therefore, honestly and fearlessly assert that the Author and Compiler of it is a well-known Sportsman, who has made the various subjects of the book the business of his life, and whose practical knowledge of Field Amusements, in its various ramifications, is uniformly acknowledged. Nor have they spared either pains or expense in the Printing or the Embellishments which illustrate and adorn the Work; their object being to produce, not merely a Book of General Reference, but a complete Sportsman’s Library.
This Work is elegantly printed on Fine Paper, and illustrated with numerous highly-finished and emblematical Engravings, executed in the most characteristic Style of Excellence by those eminent Artists,
- LANDSEER,
- COOPER,
- LAPORTE,
- BARRENGER,
- CLENNEL,
- BROOKE,
- HERRING,
- FIELDING,
- SCOTT,
- GREIG,
- WESTLEY,
- ELMER,
- WEBB,
- ROBERTS,
- &c. &c.
It is presumed that the alphabetical Arrangement of the Work will afford every facility to the Reader, and that it will be found to contain—
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HORSE, in all its Ramifications; the most approved System of Grooming (particularly of the Hunter) and Stable Management, with copious Notices of the Diseases to which he is liable, and the most judicious Mode of treating them.
THE WHOLE ART OF HORSEMANSHIP; or, the SCIENCE OF RIDING.
THE DOG, in all his Varieties, with his Diseases and Manner of Cure, and Instructions for Breeding, Breaking, or Training Him for the different Pursuits; with Directions for entering Hounds.