ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS OF THE \ 

 FIRST EDITION OF 



THE 



MASTER OF GAME 



"ï/ie Oldest English Book on Hunting 

 By EDWARD, DUKE OF YORK 



EDITED BY 



W. A. AND F. BAILLIE-GROHMAN 



WITH A FOREWORD BY 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT 



With 44 Facsimile Photogravure Plates {4 with original text) and Frontis- 

 piece reproduced in Colours and Gold, from the Miniatures in the famous 

 MS. f. fr. 616 in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Monotint reproduc- 

 tions of the drawings in the Bodleian " Master of Game" (MS. Bodl. 546), 

 and other reproductions, transcripts of hitherto unpublished MSS. and 

 Documents, Literary and Historical Notes, a Bibliography of MSS. and 

 Printed Books on Hunting in the principal Languages of Europe up to the 

 end of the sixteenth century, and a Glossary of Ancient English Hunting 

 Terms, with Index. 



Only 600 COPIES (bound with these plates in "Rough Deerskin") 

 will be sold, of which half are reserved for England, the rest for America 

 and the Continent. Each copy is numbered and signed, and under no 

 circumstances will any more be published. Price £6 . The first ten 

 copies are printed on Japanese Hand-made Vellum paper throughout and 

 Bound by Zaehnsdorf in White Vellum, price ;!^30 each. 



Only 2 copies of the latter and 20 copies of the English Edition are left. 



HIS MAJESTY THE KING and H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES 

 have been pleased to subscribe for copies. 



Published for the Editors by BALLANTYNE & CO., 14 Tavistock 

 Street, Covent Garden, W.C, London, who will forward a Specimen 

 Plate and full particulars on application. 



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