24 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



and athwart the trees of the background, is a scroll within which the 

 following verses are substituted for the original quatrain: — 

 " The stag rous'd before us, 



Away seems to fly, 

 And pants to ye chorus 



Of hounds in full cry; 

 The day's sport when over, 

 Makes blood circle right. 

 And gives ye brisk lover 

 Fresh charms for ys night." 

 Underneath the plate, but engraved also, "A set of prints of hunt- 

 ing, hawking and fishing, designed by Francis Barlow." (n. d.) 



The plates themselves are divided into two series, numbered each 

 from I to 6. The quatrains associated with them are the same, and 

 there is no other noticeable difference, except that the plates appear 

 to have been retouched. 



Mr. Crawhall, of Newcastle, has a fine early copy in his collection.] 



Barnard {Rev. M. R.) Sport in Norway, and where to find it. 



London: Chapman and Hall, 1864. 8°. 

 Barnes [Dame Julyans). 



This present boke shewyth the manere of hawkynge and 

 huntynge : and also of diuysynge of Cote armours. It shewyth 

 also a good matere belongynge to horses : wyth other com- 

 endable treatyses. And ferdermore of the blaysynge of armys : 

 as here after it may appere. {Colophon :] Here in this boke 

 afore ben shewed the treatyses perteynynge to hawkynge and 

 huntynge with others dyuers playsaunt materes belongynge 

 vnto noblesse : and also a ryght nolDle treatise of Cotarmours : 

 as in this present boke it may appere. And here we ende this 

 laste treatyse whyche specyfyeth of blasynge of armys. 

 Enprynted at Westmestre by Wynkyn the worde, the yere of 

 thyncarnacon of our lorde, mcccclxxxxvi. [Westminster] 

 1496. fol. 



[Black letter; 74 leaves. On the recto of the first leaf is a woodcut 

 of birds and on the verso a group of men with a hawk. Beneath the 

 latter follows the title. The register commences on the following 

 leaf : a — e in si.xes ; f and g in fours ; h, 6 leaves ; a — e in sixes and 

 d, 8 leaves. No pagination or catchwords. The " Treatyse of 

 fysshynge" follows that of " Cote armures" and begins on the verso 

 of g, iv ; it is not in the edition of i486. The larger device of 

 Wynkyn de Worde is on the last leaf (d viii) which has the 

 device of Caxton on the verso. Copies upon vellum are in the 

 collection of the Earl of Pembroke and in the Grenville Library, 

 British Museum. The Museum has also a copy on paper with the 

 last leaf wanting. Herbert's "Ames," pp 126— 33, contains an 

 elaborate account of this book, which is amplified and amended 

 from Herbert's notes and illustrated with facsimiles, in Dibdin's 

 edition, vol. ii., pp. 55-66. Dr. Dibdm mentions a third copy on 

 vellum. There are also copies on paper in the Huth Library and 

 in the Bodleian. 



