Pye, Henry James. — THE SPORTSMAN’S DICTIONARY; Containing Instructions for Various Methods to be Observed in Riding, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Farriery, Hawking, Breeding and Feeding Horses for the Road and Turf; the Management of Dogs, Game and Dunghill-Cocks, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Doves, Singing Birds, Etc. and the Manner of Curing their Various Diseases and Accidents. Improved and Enlarged by ...
John Stockdale 1807. 5th Ed. 4to. v + [iii] + 547pp. 17 engraved copper plates. Light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary half calf with marbled boards, corners rubbed, joints rubbed with sl. loss towards heads, dec. gilt motifs with gilt lettered title labels to spine, spine lightly cracked and rebacked with original spine laid down. Henry James Pye (1745–1813) Poet. A keen field sportsman, and a Berkshire magistrate and militia officer, he maintained an interest in field sports: his 'improved and enlarged' edition of The Sportsman's Dictionary appeared in 1807, though he is reputed to have had a hand in several of the earlier editions. With the bookplate of Peter William Monckton Copeman (1932–2018) English dermatologist known as "Dr Spot" by his colleagues. He was consultant physician at Westminster Hospital and consulting dermatologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He treated many celebrities and also helped modernise Qatar’s medical services. He authored over a hundred peer-reviewed articles and pioneered research on allergic vasculitis and malignant melanoma. Outside medicine, he co-founded the Game Conservancy, where he arranged the regeneration of the British grey partridge.
