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      • Norwich art of shooting.- Page (Thomas) The use of shooting flying: familiarly explain'd by way of dialogue. Containing directions for the choice of guns for various occasions, rare first edition, …
        Dec. 01, 2022

        Norwich art of shooting.- Page (Thomas) The use of shooting flying: familiarly explain'd by way of dialogue. Containing directions for the choice of guns for various occasions, rare first edition, …

        Est: £400 - £600

        Norwich art of shooting.- Page (Thomas) The Use of shooting flying: familiarly explain'd by way of dialogue. Containing directions for the choice of guns for various occasions. An Account of divers Experiments, discovering the Execution of Barrels of different Lengths and Bores, first edition, title with woodcut typographic ornament, woodcut head-pieces and decorative border to first initial, final advertisement f. 'A catalogue of clocks, watches, guns and other machines, made and sold by T. Page, Norwich.', contemporary ink marginalia (cropped) and underlining, lower margin of title restored, trimmed, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, later light blue wrappers, lightly stained and creased, [Schwerdt II, p.58; Chute Shooting Flying 493 'very rare'], 8vo, Norwich, Printed by J. Crouse, and sold by the author, T. Page, 1766. ⁂ Rare first edition of the third book in English on shooting; the first of which in prose. The text takes the form of a dialogue between an experienced shooter 'Aimwell' and a young novice 'Friendly'. Includes technical information on the length and bore of gun barrels, sizes of shot and charges, and the distances and accuracy achieved with different combinations. Thomas Page was a Norwich maker of guns, watches and clocks, who also made and sold surgical appliances.

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      • Thomas Page of Norwich. A George III eight-day longcase clock. The five pillar movement chiming on a single bell, fitted with a broken arch dial with applied silvered chapter ring and secondary dial a twelve o'clock and calendar aperture at six o'...
        Jul. 29, 2021

        Thomas Page of Norwich. A George III eight-day longcase clock. The five pillar movement chiming on a single bell, fitted with a broken arch dial with applied silvered chapter ring and secondary dial a twelve o'clock and calendar aperture at six o'...

        Est: £500 - £800

        Thomas Page of Norwich. A George III eight-day longcase clock. The five pillar movement chiming on a single bell, fitted with a broken arch dial with applied silvered chapter ring and secondary dial a twelve o'clock and calendar aperture at six o'clock. The satinwood strung mahogany case with swan neck pediment hood, the case banded with rosewood and partridge wood. On splayed bracket feet. 212 cm high x 53 cm wide x 24.5 cm deep. 30 cm dial size Footnote: Thomas Page is recorded in Brian Loomes's book Watch and Clockmakers Of The World (p 588)as working in Norwich in partnership with his brother in law from 1777 until his death in 1783 Condition report: The movement is clean and seems in good order The case shows some work to the cheeks of the case in the form of packing The mask shows some old woodworm damage. The mask overlaps the dial by around 5mm on each side

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      • THOMAS PAGE
        Sep. 01, 2008

        THOMAS PAGE

        Est: £300 - £500

        THOMAS PAGE The Art of Shooting Flying, familiarly explained by way of dialogue. Norwich: printed by J. Crouse, sold by the author, and by E. Johnson, London, 1767. 8°. [4],76 + 2pp. advertisement, with half-title, contemporary ms diagram on blank leaf bound in between pp. 28-29, brown limp morocco c. 1900, titled in gilt on upper cover. Second[?] Norwich edition, written by a watch and gun maker in Norwich who explains his method of shooting flying through a dialogue held with a young novice. ESTC records two issues of the first edition (Norwich, 1766) -- 3 copies and 2 copies respectively -- and one copy of a London edition of 1767 -- but the present Norwich edition is unrecorded. cf.Chute 493: "the first book in prose solely on shooting"; Schwerdt II, p. 58. EDIE, George. The Art of English Shooting. London: J. Cooke at Shakespeare's Head, [c. 1775]. 8°, 29, [1]p., engraved frontispiece (frontispiece spotted at margins, some pronounced spotting of text towards end), contemporary spot-marbled wrappers, modern blue cloth folder. Provenance: [Elkin Mathews] (note of purchase for £1-10-0 in 1945 at rear). Later edition. Schwerdt I, p. 158; cf. Chute 193. (2)

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