The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing ; wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore ; whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation, with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same
Nicholas Cox's The Gentleman's Recreation, printed in London in 1686 for the author, is a sporting treatise covering hunting, hawking, fowling and fishing, with law and hunting terms. The pictures include an ornamental mask cartouche, a dense ring of hunting figures, a hunter with hounds and a castle on a hill, and an armorial shield with the motto Vincit Veritas, which together suggest decorative framing devices and emblematic borders for a designer working with period sporting material.
