The master of game / by Edward, second duke of York. The oldest English book on hunting; ed. by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. With 52 facsimile photogravure plates and monotint reproductions.
1904
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Title
The master of game / by Edward, second duke of York. The oldest English book on hunting; ed. by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. With 52 facsimile photogravure plates and monotint reproductions.
Created/published
London : Pub. for the editors by Ballantyne, Hanson, & co., 1904.
Description
liii, 286 p., 1 leaf : 3 ill., LII pl. (incl. col. front.) ; 41 x 29 cm
Associated name
Note
In double columns. Title in red and black. Each plate has guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
"The design on the cover is taken from a seal of Edward, second duke of York, figuring in the work of Francis Sandford, Lancaster herald of arms, published 1677."
Frontispiece: Gaston Phoebus (Count Gaston de Foix) surrounded by huntsmen and hounds (produced by 78 colour-printings by W. Griggs & sons)
"Only 600 copies bound with these plates are for sale, of which half are reserved for subscribers in England, the remainder for America and the Continent. Nos. 1-10 are printed on Japanese hand-made velum paper, and bound by Zaehnsdorf."
"Glossary of the obsolete sporting terms and words": p. [273]-279.
"Written between the years 1406 and 1413 by ... Edward, second duke of York ... The greater part ... is a careful translation from ... Count Gaston de Foix's Livre de chasse, or, as author and book are often called, Gaston Phoebus, which was commenced ... on May 1, 1387. Of the thirty-six chapters in the 'Master of game' only five are original ... These are printed in italics in the old English text. The latter is reproduced from the Cottonian ms. Vespasian B. XII, dating from about 1420 ... Side by side with the old text a modernised version is printed."--Introd.
"The design on the cover is taken from a seal of Edward, second duke of York, figuring in the work of Francis Sandford, Lancaster herald of arms, published 1677."
Frontispiece: Gaston Phoebus (Count Gaston de Foix) surrounded by huntsmen and hounds (produced by 78 colour-printings by W. Griggs & sons)
"Only 600 copies bound with these plates are for sale, of which half are reserved for subscribers in England, the remainder for America and the Continent. Nos. 1-10 are printed on Japanese hand-made velum paper, and bound by Zaehnsdorf."
"Glossary of the obsolete sporting terms and words": p. [273]-279.
"Written between the years 1406 and 1413 by ... Edward, second duke of York ... The greater part ... is a careful translation from ... Count Gaston de Foix's Livre de chasse, or, as author and book are often called, Gaston Phoebus, which was commenced ... on May 1, 1387. Of the thirty-six chapters in the 'Master of game' only five are original ... These are printed in italics in the old English text. The latter is reproduced from the Cottonian ms. Vespasian B. XII, dating from about 1420 ... Side by side with the old text a modernised version is printed."--Introd.
Bibliography, etc.
"List of some books consulted": p. l-liii.
"General bibliography of books and mss. on hunting in the principal European languages up to the end of the 16th century": p. [213]-272.
"General bibliography of books and mss. on hunting in the principal European languages up to the end of the 16th century": p. [213]-272.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
SK25 .E24
Folger-specific note
Guilsborough Hall copy.