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SHOOTING -- FITZGERALD, Gerald (1739-1819). The Academick Sportsman: or, A Winter's Day. A poem . Dublin printed: London, reprinted for E. Johnston and S. Bladon, 1773. 4° (235 x 180mm). (Spotted, particularly on title.) Early 20th-century brown half morocco, uncut, top edge gilt. Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1346, part lot). FIRST LONDON EDITION. There were Dublin editions in 1773 and 1780. Schwerdt I, p. 175: 'a poem describing a day's rough shooting in the district of the Wicklow mountains'. [PYE, Henry James (1745-1813)]. Shooting. A Poem . London: J. Davis for R. Faulder, 1784. 4° (239 x 179mm). (Quire E spotted.) Tree calf by Riviere, uncut. Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate and gilt arms on spine; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 1910). ONLY EDITION. Pye was created poet laureate in 1790. Chute 531; Schwerdt II, 118. GREENWOOD, William (1754-1811). A Poem written during a Shooting Excursion on the Moors . Bath: printed by R. Crutwell, sold by J. Marshall; also by R. Baldwin, London, 1787. 4° (239 x 179mm). Tree calf by Riviere. Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate and gilt arms on spine; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1463). ONLY EDITION. Chute 259: 'the first published work on grouse shooting. He takes 17 pages to reach the moor (demonstrating his classical education in the process), and only 8 pages to describe the shooting. Exceedingly rare'; Schwerdt I. p. 218. Together with Richard Tickell's Epistle from the Honourable James Fox, partridge-shooting, to the Honourable John Townshend, cruising (1779, 4°). ALL 4 VOLUMES FROM THE SCHWERDT LIBRARY. (4)