The noble arte of venerie or hunting. : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiutene sundrie chaces togither, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contentes vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.
1575
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The noble arte of venerie or hunting. : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiutene sundrie chaces togither, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contentes vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.
Uniform title
Vénerie.
Created/published
[[London] : Imprinted by Henry Bynneman, for Christopher Barker, [1575]]
Description
[10], 202, 359-362, 205-248, [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts), music ; (4to)
Associated name
Gascoigne, George, -1577, author.
Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?, attributed name.
Barker, Christopher, 1529-1599, bookseller.
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner.
Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580. Vénerie.
Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?, attributed name.
Barker, Christopher, 1529-1599, bookseller.
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner.
Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580. Vénerie.
Note
By George Gascoigne, whose name appears on [superscript pi]A3v.
An adaptation of: Fouilloux, Jacques du. La vénerie.
Partly in verse.
Printer's and publisher's names from colophon; publication date from STC.
Running title reads: The booke of hunting.
Leaf N6 cancelled and replaced by bifolium signed "a".
The last two leaves contain bugle calls.
Usually bound with an edition of "The booke of falconrie or hawking" by George Turberville, to whom this work is sometimes attributed.
Signatures: pi1 [superscript pi]A⁴ A-M⁸ N⁸(-N6+a²) O-P⁸ Q⁴ [dagger]².
An adaptation of: Fouilloux, Jacques du. La vénerie.
Partly in verse.
Printer's and publisher's names from colophon; publication date from STC.
Running title reads: The booke of hunting.
Leaf N6 cancelled and replaced by bifolium signed "a".
The last two leaves contain bugle calls.
Usually bound with an edition of "The booke of falconrie or hawking" by George Turberville, to whom this work is sometimes attributed.
Signatures: pi1 [superscript pi]A⁴ A-M⁸ N⁸(-N6+a²) O-P⁸ Q⁴ [dagger]².
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1987. Folger's Choice (catalog entry 54)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 98)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: pp. 132-133.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 98)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: pp. 132-133.
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), 24328
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S121817
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S121817
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Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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STC 24328
Folger-specific note
5/9/46. Fur-covered stag-skin binding, with silver ornaments on the front and back covers (four floriate ornaments in the corners and stags in the centers); mottled calf doublures, gilt- and blind-tooled, with drawn images of hares and foxes; gauffered edges; stored in a box. Manuscript bibliographical notes on the front fly-leaf. Leaf [superscript pi]A2 mutilated and repaired at the tail, affecting the direction-line. Provenance: bookplate of Robert Hoe; engraved armorial booplate of C.F.G.R. (Charles Francis George Richard) Schwerdt (see: Schwerdt, C. Hunting, hawking, shooting ... London, 1928-1937. II, 271.); Sotheby's Schwerdt sale, 3/11/[19]46, lot 2101