xxxiv BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. 



at the close of the older work : for, where that speaks of 

 the '' blessynge of god and Saynt Peter," he says, " Let 

 the blessing of St. Peter's master be with mine !" 



Besides those bv Wvnkyn de Werde, there were various 

 black letter editions of this treatise, by Wyllyam Cop- 

 lande, one at the signe of the Rose Garlande, one or more in 

 the Ventre on the then Crane Wharfe ; another by W. C. for 

 Robert Toye; another in Paule's Church- Yarde, at the signe 

 of the Lambe, by Abraham Vele, and probably two others 

 — one in Lothbury over against St. Margaret's Church ; 

 the other, W. Copland for R. Tottell ; By He'ry Tab., in 

 Paule's Chyrch-yerde ; By John Waley, in Forster-laen ; 

 By Wyllyam Powell, at the sygne of the George, next to 

 St. Dunstan's Church. (See Pickering's edition of Ellis's 

 Catalogue.) 



Copies of any of these editions are extremely rare ; not 

 one, so far as I can ascertain, has reached this country. 

 At the sale of Mr. Haworth's (the leviathan of angling 

 books) Library, 1826, a copy of Waley's imprint sold for 

 £8 ; one of Powell's for £7 55. ; and one (imperfect) by 

 Coplande for £4 4^. There was sold at the same time for 

 nineteen guineas, a copy by Wynkyn de Werde, formerly 

 in the Harleian Library, from which it passed through 

 several hands into the possession of Mr. Haworth. A note 

 in the sale Catalogue of his Library,* says of this unques- 

 tionable unique : " Mr. Haslewood, in his elaborate Lite- 

 rary and Bibliographical Prefix to the Boke of St. Albans, 

 in 1810, states his not being aware of any circumstance 

 by which he could decide whether the present ' treatyse * 

 formed an entire impression, or was part only of some un- 

 described edition of the Book of Sir Tristam. This, how- 

 ever, may now be set at rest. In an inventory of books 

 prepared by Lord Stafford, at Stafford Castle, in 1556, the 

 treatises of Hawking and Hunting are noticed, as having 



* In my collection. 



