A PERFECT BOOKE FOR KEPINGE OF SPARHAWKES OR GOSHAWKES: WRITTEN ABOUT 1575. By James Edmund Harting.
(1886) 1972 reprint. 8vo (141 x 212mm). Pp(v),xxxii,51. B/w engraving. Short introduction by Phillip Glasier, lengthy introduction and glossary by Harting.
"...Now first printed from the original MS. on Vellum. With Introduction and Glossary by J.E. Harting." An Elizabethan treatise on the training of sparrowhawks. "Written about 1575, the original vellum ms. was discovered in a country home, where it had lain forgotten for several hundred years; its authorship has not been established." (Cave).
"...Now first printed from the original MS. on Vellum. With Introduction and Glossary by J.E. Harting." An Elizabethan treatise on the training of sparrowhawks. "Written about 1575, the original vellum ms. was discovered in a country home, where it had lain forgotten for several hundred years; its authorship has not been established." (Cave).
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15254
| Author | Harting (James Edmund), Editor. |
|---|---|
| Book Code | 15254 |
| ISBN | 0900294078 / 0900294078. |
| Book Description | Small ink-erased label to fep but very good in price-clipped d/w. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 1972 |
| Publisher | Thames Valley Press. |
| Place | Maidenhead. |