NOTES ON FALCONRY. By J.E.M. Mellor, M.A. Reich facsimile edition.

(1949) 1971 Reich reprint. Small 8vo (130 x 192mm). Ppxii,83. B/w photograph plate, line illustrations, bibliography. Maroon cloth, upper board titled in gilt, spine untitled.

A facsimile reprint of Mellor's scarce, privately printed, introduction to falconry. Chapters include:- History; Choice of hawk and preparations to be made for its reception; Flying at 'Hack' and training; Feeding and useful hints; Sport with peregrine and goshawk - a lure and a goal; Glossary of some falconry terms - English and French; A review of ailments and accidents to which trained hawks are subject and of suggestions for their treatment; On the identity of certain parasitic mites; Biographical notes on persons mentioned in early records, chapter I, and corrections of certain errors; Falconers' clubs and associations in 1948*. This edition was stated to have been limited to only 500 numbered copies, however, John Swift states "Five hundred copies were scheduled, but actually only 250 were printed and bound". (Bibliotheca Accipitraria II, 2010).