The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed ... His Majesty's Stag Hounds (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Taplin, William

 
9780267685523: The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed ... His Majesty's Stag Hounds (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich, Master of His Majesty's Stag Hounds

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