Author:
William Somerville, poet who wrote in many genres and is especially remembered for The Chace.
Publication details:
No place or date (Life: 1675-1742)
Strip from an endpaper(?), 12.5 x 1.5, laid down on sl. larger paper, aged but clear. A scarce autograph! See Image. Note: Of his best-known poems, especially The Chace (1735). That poem, written in Miltonic blank verse, traces the history of hunting up to the Norman Conquest of England (1066) and gives incidental information on kennel design, hare hunting, stag hunting, otter hunting, the breeding and training of dogs, and dog diseases… [Britannica]
