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white,) upon a red back-ground, surrounded by a two-line frame-work, 

 in red. 



The top line reads thus : 



" Hie finis divsorx genosis valde utiliu ut ituetibz pateb." 



The bottom is as follows : 



" Sanctus Albanus." 



The reverse is blank. 



A fine copy of this rare book, upon paper, is in the Collection of the Right 

 Hon. Thomas Grenville,in the Britishliluseum. Though wanting two leaves, 

 it is in the most extraordinary condition, being uncut throughout, and ap- 

 parently never having been bound, but only prepared for binding. Other 

 copies are in the Collections of Earl Spencer, the Earl of Pembroke, the 

 Marquis of Bute, the Bodleian Library, and in the Public Library at Cam- 

 bridge; the last three copies are however said to be imperfect. 



II. 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 : with other comen- 

 able treatyses. And ferdermore of the blaysynge of armys : 

 as here after it may appere. Small folio. 



Juliana Berners, or Barnes, to whom the above Treatises were ascribed, is 

 supposed to have been sister to Richard, Lord Berners, of Essex, and prioress 

 of Sopwell, near St. Albans. She is said to have flourished about the year 

 1460, and is celebrated for her learning and accomplishments. 



Besides being the first printed Treatise on the subject in the English lan- 

 guage, this work affords us rude representations of the different kinds of 

 tackle in use, and contains directions and remarks which have been copied 

 in some rocent Treatises on Angling. 



On the first page a wood-cut of birds, and on the reverse a group of men 

 with a hawk, underneath the title above. 



Sig. a, 5 leaves, the first blank, making 6. b, 6 leaves, c, 6 leaves 

 (Hawkynge ends on c, 5, and Huntynge commences on c, 6.) 



d, 6 leaves, e, 6 leaves (Coat-armour commences on e, 6). f, 4 leaves, 

 g, 4 leaves (on reverse of g, 4, " Here begynnyth the treatise of fysshynge 

 wyth an Angle.") h, 6 leaves, i, 4 leaves, " Here begynnyth the blasynge 

 of arms." a, 6 leaves, b, 6 leaves, c, 6 leaves, d, 7 leaves. 



Here in this boke afore ben shewed the treatyses perteynynge to hawk- 

 ynge and huutynge with others dyuers playsaunt materes belongynge unto 

 noblesse : and also a ryght noble treatise of Cot armours : as in this present 

 boke it may appere. And here we ende this laste treatyse whyche specy- 

 fyeth of blasynge of armys. Emprynted at Westmestre, by Wynkyn de 

 Worde, the yere of thyncarnacon of our lorde, M.CCCC.LXXXXVT. 



On the last leaf (d, 8) is the device of Wynkyn de Worde, and on the re- 

 verse that of Caxton. This leaf is wanting in the copy in the British 

 Museum. 



Copies upon Vellum are in the Collections of the Earl of Pembroke and 

 the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville : and upon paper in the British Museum ; 

 in the late Mr. Douce's Collection, now in the Bodleian ; and in the late 

 Mr. Dent's Library. Probablv the finest extant upon paper was Mr. Hanrott's, 

 which is now (1836) in the Collection of the Hon. George John Vernon. 



This edition was reprinted in facsimile, by Mr. Haslewood, Lond. 1810; 

 and the Treatyse of Fysshing wyth an Angle, from this edition, wus re- 

 printed by W. Pickering, in crown 8vo, with Baskerville's Types. London, 



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