The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans : containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.
1595
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Title
The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans : containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.
Uniform title
Boke of Saint Albans
Created/published
London : Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard, 1595.
Description
[4], 95, [1] leaves : ill. ; (4to)
Associated name
Note
Attributed to Juliana Berners.
G.M. = Gervase Markham.
Revised from the first edition, 1486.
Signatures: A-G⁴ I-Y⁴ 2A-2D⁴.
The first leaf is blank except for large signature-mark "A"; the last leaf is blank.
"A treatise of hunting" and "The booke of armorie" each have separate dated title page naming Simmes as the printer; foliation and register are continuous.
Some copies have the illustration on leaf 57r cancelled.
G.M. = Gervase Markham.
Revised from the first edition, 1486.
Signatures: A-G⁴ I-Y⁴ 2A-2D⁴.
The first leaf is blank except for large signature-mark "A"; the last leaf is blank.
"A treatise of hunting" and "The booke of armorie" each have separate dated title page naming Simmes as the printer; foliation and register are continuous.
Some copies have the illustration on leaf 57r cancelled.
ESTC staff note
Leaves 25-54 misnumbered 29-58.
Signatures from DFo.
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 3314
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S103621
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S103621
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
STC 3314 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs1176. Red goatskin binding, signed by F. Bedford. Illustrations, initials, vignettes hand-colored. Leaf 57r illustration cancelled. Some leaves mended. Provenance: inscription of Chas John Bird; signature of Hen: St. George; John Pearson - W.J. Leighton copy
Call number
STC 3314 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH26/9. Goatskin binding, gilt ruling with acorns in corners, signed by Riviere & son. Leaf 57r illustration cancelled. Lacking blanks. Stained; some leaves mended. Manuscript markings. Provenance: signatures of James Hughes and William Lewis; Heber - Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 3314 copy 3
Folger-specific note
cs759. Lacking blanks and L4 (blank). Leaf 57r illustration cancelled. Provenance: name scratched out on t.p.; letter of Nathan Drake, 1814, inserted