BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



British Museum, but one was sold by Messrs. Sotheby & Wilkin- 

 son (Lot 394) on the nth April 1885. It was reprinted on 

 vellum by Gosden in 1820, with the following title : — 



The Young Sportsman's Instructor : or Angling-, 

 Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, Ordering Singing Birds, 

 Hawks, Poultry, Coneys, Hares, and Dogs, and how 

 to cure them. By G. M. Sold at the Gold Ring in 

 Little Britain, n.d. [1652]. 32mo. 



On the half-title " The Young Sportsman's Instructor. 

 London. Reprinted for T. Gosden by J. Johnson, Apollo Press, 

 Brook Street, Holborn, 1820." 



This curious and diminutive volume, of which a copy is in the 

 British Museum (C. 29. a 24), measures only 2^ by i| inches, 

 and contains pp. vi., 136, and one leaf, as follows : — The Young 

 Angler's Instructor, pp. 1-76. The Art of Fowling, pp. 77-112. 

 Instructions for the Huntsman, pp. 1 13-122. Directions for 

 Hawking and Managing Hawks to fly at all game with success, 

 pp. 123-130. Concluding with the words " And thus much for 

 the princely recreation of Hawking." On the last page (p. 136) 

 a recipe headed *' Hawks, to cure of all inward sickness, all sorts 

 of wormes," etc. Westwood and Satchell (Bibl. Piscat., p. 147) 

 notice two later editions, 1707 and 17 12, with slightly different 

 titles and some additions. The letters G. M. on the title, 

 usually attributed to " Gervase Markham," must be taken only 

 to imply that the subject-matter was borrowed from his writings 

 he himself having died before the first edition of this little book 

 had appeared. 



8. MARKHAM (Gervase). Hunger's Preven- 

 tion ; or the whole Arte of Fowling by Water and 

 Land. Containing all the Secrets belonging to that 

 Arte, etc. By Gervase Markham, London. Printed 

 by A. Math, for Anne Helme and Thomas Langley, 

 and are to be sold at their shops in Saint Dunstons 

 Church-yard, and over against the Sarazens head with- 

 out Newgate. 1621. 12 mo. 



