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Cynegetica; or, the Force and Pleasure of Hunting:

Cynegetica; or, the Force and Pleasure of Hunting: An heroi-comical Poem, in two Canto's. Containing several comical Incidents, and diverting Episodes. By a Gentleman of the Inner Temple [...]

Publication details: Printed for William Chetwood [...],1718,

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Extremely scarce mock-heroic poem of bucolic misadventure and country sports. The work is intended to rescue hare hunting from the second tier of blood sports: 'if it should be ask'd, why my choice was rather a Hare, than a Fox, Deer, &c. my Reason is, that I don't know of any wild Creature in these Kingdoms, usually hunted, that will afford such Variety of Diversion as an old Hare'. An energetic hare hunt occupies the second part of the poem, following one of the promised 'diverting episodes', in which chickens are killed by a dog.The author's name 'H. Morgan, of the Inner-Temple, gent' appears in the second edition (1720). Hawten (also spelt Hawtaine or Houghton) Maria Morgan (b.1654-5) entered the Inner Temple in May 1674 and matriculated at Magdalen College Oxford the following year. His family owned Calthorpe House, near Banbury. Only three copies of this first issue are recorded: at St. John's Cambridge, Yale, and College of William and Mary. The second issue has just one copy located, at the Bodleian.

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FIRST EDITION; engraved frontispiece by Elisha Kirkall included within pagination (repeated at p. 30), final blank; rather browned and spotted, particularly at the prelims, slight damage to the fore-edge (no loss), pp. 46, including engraved frontispiece (repeated at p. 30), [2], 12mo, nineteenth-century full tan calf, single gilt fillet to boards, blind roll at board edges and turn ins; spine ends chipped, upper joint tender and a little loss to the spine labels; nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (?of Robert Graham, Wimbledon), good

Bibliography: (ESTC N36327; Foxon M443; Schwerdt Vol.I, p.70)

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