1809. _Advice to Sportsmen_, rural or metropolitan, noviciates or grown persons; with anecdotes of the most renowned shots of the day, exemplified from life, including recommendatory hints on the choice of guns, dogs, and sporting paraphernalia. Also characters, costume, and correspondence. Selected from the original notes of Marmaduke Markwell, Esq., with sixteen illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson:-- But a bold pheasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. '_Dedication._--To the most enlightened Sportsman in the metropolis of the British Empire; equally keen in pursuit of the hare, the haunch, the partridge, pheasant, woodcock, wild fowl, black or red game; devourer of the amphibious turtle, and terror of the Dutch; dead shot at a patriot; a marksman whose brilliant and sporting elocution can start a _Jubilee_ in the worst of times, whose merry jokes can create sport, and are the cause of sport to others: To Sir William Curtis, Bart., M.P. &c., &c., &c., these effusions of a City Sportsman are with all respect inscribed by his most devoted and obedient servant, 'MARMADUKE MARKWELL. 'Turn-again Lane, September 1, 1809.' _Frontispiece._ The Cockney's first attempt at shooting flying. _Illustrations._ Rat-hunting. How to twist your neck. Night. Noon. Morning. The dangerous consequences of sporting. Miss Spitfire's encounter. Advantage of coupling sporting dogs. Finishing a gamekeeper. How to come in at the death. How to cool your courage. A duck hunt in Bartholomew Lane. Neck or nothing. A shooting parson or pot-hunter. Evening. 1809. _The Pleasures of Human Life._ By Hilari Benevolus & Co., with five plates by Rowlandson, &c. Published by Longmans. 1809. _The Pleasures of Human Life._ Investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically, in a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes and expounded by numerous annotations by Hilari Benevolus & Co. (Fellow of the London Literary Society of Lusorits). (Mottoes from Milton, Dibdin, and Peter Pindar.) Embellished with five illustrations and two headpieces. London: Longmans & Co. Crown 8vo. Front engraved by W. Bond, after W. Satchwell. Physiognomical vignette on title-page engraved by W. Bond, from _Bell's Anatomy of Expression_. Of Rowlandson's illustrations the author observes, in his preface: 'The five illustrative commendatory etchings do not require any verbal explanation.' Five prints by Rowlandson:-- 1. Christopher Crabtree in the Suds. 2. Mr. Ego's marvellous Story. 3. Connoisseurs, or Portrait Collectors! (The 'collector' in question is slily pocketing a print while the shopman's attention is diverted.)