OBSERVATIONS UPON HAWKING: BREAKING AND MANAGING THE SEVERAL KINDS OF HAWKS USED IN FALCONRY. By Sir John Sebright. Transcribed by Bob Dalton. Falconry Heritage Series Number 2. De Luxe Edition.

(1826) 2020 1st edition thus, "de luxe issue." Large 8vo (166 x 248mm). Pp60. B/w illustrations, plus new b/w sketched by D. Martin. B/w illustration of a falcon laid in. Blue boards, spine and upper board titled in gilt, marbled end-papers. Matching blue slip-case and marbled card sleeve. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies.

"Hawking, the favourite diversion of our ancestors, is now so fallen into disuse, that the Art of Falconry is in danger of being entirely lost. Conceiving, however, in whatever estimation we may hold it as an amusement, that the method of reclaiming a wild bird must always remain an object of curiosity, I have been induced to commit to paper the following observations on the subject: They are the result, not only of my own experience, but of what I have learnt from the best falconers of the old school, having had abundant opportunities of acquiring information from them." The falconers from whom Sebright learned his falconry were all from Valkensvaard.