ENGLISH. 9 



Frontispiece, 6 prelim, leaves, with Dedication to Sir Edwin 

 Sands, Kt., and others, pp. 1-285 • Hawks, pp. 134-183, with 

 cuts of the Haggard Faulcon and Goshawk (pp. 182-183). 



Another edition, varying only in the title-page, " Printed for 

 Francis Grove and are to be sold by Martha Harrison at the 

 signe of the Larabe at the east end of St. Paules Church, 1655." 

 i2mo. 



9. ELYOT (Sir Thomas, Knt.). The Boke named 



THE Governor, devised by Sir Thomas Elyot, Knyght. 



London, 1531. sm. 8vo. 



Chapter xviii. is entitled "The auncient huntyng of Greekes 

 and Romans," and contains some remarks on the origin of 

 Falconry which the author confesses his inability to discover. 

 He quotes Pliny (Hb. x. cap. 10), who seems to have copied 

 Aristotle in his description of hawking in Thrace, and conjec- 

 tures that '* from Thracia came this disporte of banking," adding, 

 " but in what wise or wheresoever the beginninge of banking was, 

 surely it is a right delectable solace "; and, a little further on, 

 " banking measurably used and for a passetyme gyveth to a man 

 good appetite to his souper." He alludes to the old sport of 

 " daring larks with a Hobby," which he himself had witnessed. 

 This sport is described by Nicholas Cox (No. 38, pp. 58, 59), 

 and noticed by Somervile (No. 45, ed. 1813, p. 103). Sir Thomas 

 Elyot's " Boke " has been several times reprinted, as in 1534, 



1537. 1544, 1546, 1547, i553» i557» 1565^ 1580- In 1834 a 

 new edition in 8vo, by A. T. Eliot, was published at Newcastle, 

 and the latest, edited by H. S. Croft, with Notes, in 2 vols. 4to, 

 appeared in 1880. (London, Kegan Paul & Co.) 



10. ANON". The Institution of a Gentleman. 



Anno Domini m.dlxviii. Imprinted at London in 



Flete-strete, nere unto Saint Dunstone's Church by 



Thomas Marshe. [Second edition. The first, 1555. 



i2mo.] 



The oldest English treatise on the subject, long preceding the 

 publications of Peacham and Brathwait, and a very scarce little 

 book. The unknown author " bryngeth in good occasion to 



