UNIQUE COPY OF W. COPLAND'S LOTHBERY EDITION. 

 226 [BARNES OR BERNERS (Dame Juliana, Abbess of Sopwell 



Priory in St. Albaris Abbey)], THE BOOKE OF HAUKYNG, 



HUNTYING AND FYSSHYNG, WYTH ALL THE PROPERTIES AND 

 MEDECYNES THAT ARE NESSARY TO BE KEPT, blftCk ICttCt, long 



lines, in three parts with separate titles, EACH CONTAINING A 



FINE LARGE AND VERY SPIRITED WOODCUT a hawking grOUp 



with, hawk flying overhead on the first title, a man blowing the 



horn, with dogs, on the second, and a man fishing on the third ; 



also a number of quaint woodcuts of fishing implements in the 



" tretyse of Fysshynge" VERY FINE LARGE COPY, sewed, 45O 



Imprinted at London in Lothbery over agaynst S. Margarets 



churche by Wylliam Copland, n.d, (between 1565-67^ 



THE ONLY COPY KNOWN OF AN EDITION OF A BOOK OF THE 

 HIGHEST INTEREST AND VALUE. HITHERTO BIBLIOGRAPHERS HAVE 



ONLY KNOWN OF ITS EXISTENCE FROM THE ENTRY IN THE REGISTERS OF THE 



STATIONERS COMPANY. This copy is in a wonderful state of preservation, for, 

 with the exception of a trifling fray on the fore-margin of the first title, it is 

 almost in as good condition as when first published, SEVERAL LEAVES RETAINING 

 THEIR ROUGH EDGES. William Copland, the printer, succeeded Robert Copland, 

 the pupil of Wynkyn de Worde, in business at the sign of the Rose Garland in 

 1548. He moved thence to the Three Cranes Wharf and finally settled in 

 Lothbery in 1565, where he finished his career somewhere about 1568. A 

 detailed collation is appended : A to M in fours, thus arranged, A i title, text as 

 above with woodcut beneath, reverse blank ; A 2 to E 4 text of hawking, ending with 

 the colophon : " Imprinted in Lothbery ouer agaynst S. Margaret church by *.u 

 Wylliam Copland" at the foot of E 4, reverse blank F i title to hunting: "Here 

 begynneth the booke of Huntyng whereunto is added the measures of blowyng," 

 with woodcut beneath, text (in verse throughout) begins on reverse of title and 

 finishes half-way down 14, with the colophon : " Imprynted at London in 

 Lothberye ouer agaynst Saynt Margarets Church by Wyllyam Copland," reverse 

 blank. K i title to angling : " Here begynneth a tretyse of Fysshynge with an 

 Angle," with woodcut beneath ; text begins on reverse of title and ends on 

 reverse of M 4 with the colophon: "Imprinted at London in Lothbery ouer 

 agaynst S. Margarets Churche by Wylliam Copland" It will be noticed that there 

 are slight variations in the three colophons. 



[See Illustration on reverse.] 



