TRAINING THE SHORT WINGED HAWK: AN ELIZABETHAN PERSPECTIVE... By Edmund Bert, edited by Derry Argue.

2005 1st edition thus. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp192. B/w illustrations. Burgundy cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"A Transcription of Two Important 16th Century Books on Training the Goshawk and Sparrowhawk for Falconry." An Approved Treatise of Hawks and Hawking by Edmund Bert [1619] and A Perfect Booke for Kepinge of Sparhawkes or Goshawks by an unknown author [1575]. Transcribed and edited to present a useable, practical text to the modern falconer. Short-winged hawks "need to come to 'love their keeper' and both books ...excel in explaining how this behaviour is achieved and how faults such as hood-shyness, carrying, turning tail, extreme nervousness etc. can be cured."