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upon our ancestors at this period in the history of the chase in 
England. 
The Appendix to this chapter, entitled a “ Bibliography of 
Hunting and Hunters,” stands in need of considerable revision. 
We are afraid to say how many errors we have detected in these 
nine pages, chiefly, it would seem, from an omission to consult 
the originals of the works cited. The date of the first edition of 
the ‘ Boke of St. Albans’ is 1486, not 1481, as stated on the first 
page of the Appendix. In the succeeding title there is an extra- 
ordinary confusion of ideas. Thus the title runs :— 
The Treatises of Hawking, Hunting, Coat Armour, Fishing, and 
Blazing of Arms. Edited by Joseph Haselwood, printed by Wynkyn de 
Worde. Westminster, 1486. Fol. Another edition of the above. 
From this it might be inferred by the unwary that Joseph 
Haslewood was a contemporary of Wynkyn de Worde, that the 
edition of 1486 was printed at Westminster, and that there was 
an earlier edition than this of the work. The facts are, in 1486 
the first edition was printed at St. Albans, that in 1496 the 
second edition was printed by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster, 
and that in 1810 Joseph Haslewood reprinted Wynkyn de Worde’s 
edition with an excellent introduction of his own.* Of the 
numerous subsequent editions of this work the Appendix in ques- 
tion mentions but three. Of Gervase Markham’s at one time 
popular work, ‘ Country Contentments,’ only one of the fourteen 
editions is noticed, the title of his ‘Gentleman’s Academie,’ 1595, 
is incorrectly quoted, and no mention is made of his 4to treatise 
on the Hunting Horse, 1599. There are numerous errors in 
authors’ names (those of Turbervile, Somervile, Cockaine, and 
others, being mis-spelled), as also in the sizes of books, Gryn- 
dall’s work, for example, being a quarto, not a folio, and Blome’s 
being a folio, not a quarto. 
Nor is the bibliography so complete as it might be made, 
several notable works having been overlooked, as, for instance, 
the excellent translation of Arrian’s ‘‘ Cynegeticus,’ by “a 
graduate of medicine,’ printed in 1831, with an account of the 
Canes venatici of classical antiquity. For our own part we should 
have included the best editions of the works of Xenophon, 
“It appears to have escaped the notice of critics that, although Hasle- 
wood’s title-page bears date 1810, his Introduction is dated 30th Oct., 1811. 
