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The first edition was printed at St. Alban's, i486, containing the Treatises 

 of Hawking, Hunting, and Coat-Armour ; and reprinted by Markham, under 

 the title of "The Gentleman's Academic, or the Booke of St. Albans: con- 

 taining three most exact of excellent Bopkes : the first of Hawking, the 

 second of all the proper termes of Hunting, and the last of Armorie : all 

 compiled by Juliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ, 1486. 

 And now reduced into a better method by G. M. (Gervase Markham), 

 London : printed for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in 

 Paules Church-Yard 1595." 4-to. 



III. Here begynnyth a treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle. 

 Small 4to. 



The title over the wood-cut of a man angling : on the reverse of D, iiii. 

 Here endeth the boke of Fysshynge wyth other dyuers maters. Imprynted 

 at London, by Wynkyn de Worde, dwellynge in Flete-strete, at the sygne of 

 the Sonne. 



Small 4to, with wood-cuts. A to Diiij. This edition appears to have been 

 published as a distinct treatise : the concluding paragraph of the former 

 edition is omitted, stating, "And for by cause that this present treatyse 

 sholde not come to the hondys of eche ydle persoue, whyche wolde desire it 

 yf it were enprynted allone by itself, & put in a lytyll plaunflet ; therfore I 

 bane compylyd it in a greter volume of dyuerse bokys concernynge to 

 gentyll & noble men. To the entent that the forsayd ydle persones whyche 

 scholde haue but lytyll mesure in the sayd dysporte of fysshyng, sholde not 

 by this meane vtterly dystroye it." The only copy known, which was for- 

 merly Mr. Haworth's, is now in the collection of George Wilkinson, esq. 



IV. The boke of hawkynge, and huntynge, and fysshynge. Small 

 4to. 



Wood-cut group of Men with hawk, as in W. de Worde's edition 1496. 



Reverse of C 7 II Thus endeth the boke of hawkynge. 



C 8, Here begynneth the boke of huntynge ; on reverse of F 1, four lines 

 of t-ie ballad: Therfore assaye them euerych one, &c. 



H Thus endeth the treatyse of huntynge, and other thynges. 



And here begynneth a treatyse of fysshynge wt an angle. Wood-cut 

 underneath. 



F, 2, commences Salomon, &c., and ends on reverse of H, iv. 



Here endeth the boke of hawkynge, huntynge, and fysshynge, and with 

 many other dyuers maters. Imprynted in Flete-street, at ye sygiie of ye 

 sonne, by Wykyn de Worde, with his colophon. 



46 leaves. 



The catchword throughout the volume is " Huntynge;" this edition reads 

 "Of Saynt Thomas tyde of Caunterbure." 



A copy of this edition, now in the possession of Mr. George Daniel, of 

 Islington, is supposed to be unique. 



T. The booke of hauking hunting and fysshing, with all the 

 properties and medecynes that are necessary to be kept. 

 Small 4to. 



Over a rude engraving on wood, at the end of this portion there is no 

 colophon. 



Here beginneth the booke of Hunting, whereunto is added the measures 

 of blowing. Over a wood-cut, no colophon. 



Here beginneth a tretyse of Fysshyuge with an Angle. Over a wood-cut 

 of a man angling. 



