BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



and compylyt togedyr at Seynt Albans the yere from thincaraa- 

 cion of owre Lorde Jhu Crist, mcccclxxxvi." 



2. BARNES (Juliana). The Book containing 

 THE Treatises of Hawking ; Hunting ; Coat-Armour ; 

 Fishing ; and Biasing of Arms. As printed at West- 

 minster by Wynkyn de Worde ; the year of the 

 Incarnation of our Lord, 1496. sm. folio. 



[Reprinted with an Introduction by Joseph 

 Haslewood. London, 18 10. sm. folio.] 



The original, in black letter, 74 leaves, is without title-page, 

 pagination, or catch-words. On the recto of the first leaf is a 

 woodcut of Birds, and on the verso a group of men with a hawk, 

 beneath which follows the title in four lines and a half, begin- 

 ning : — " This present boke shewyth the manere of hawkynge and 

 huntynge, and also of divysynge of Cote armours," etc. Colophon. 

 " Here in this boke afore ben shewed the treatyses perteynynge 

 to hawkynge & huntynge with other dyvers playsaunt materes 

 belongynge unto noblesse : and also a ryght noble treatise of 



Cotarmours, as in this present boke it may appere 



Emprynted at Westmestre by Wynkyn the Worde the yere of 

 thyncarnacon of our Lorde mcccclxxxxvi." 



The book of Hunting ends thus : " Explicit dame Julyans 

 Bernes doctryne in her boke of huntynge." 



The " treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle " formed no part 

 of the Boke of St, Albans as originally printed in i486, but was 

 added by Wynkyn de Worde ten years later. A few copies 

 of Haslewood's "Introduction," dated 30th Oct. 1811, were 

 separately issued, one of which is in the writer's possession. 



Between 1496 and 1596 several different versions, 

 more or less altered from the original, appeared ; several 

 undated, most of them without an editor's name, and 

 all of them now excessively rare. They are known by 

 the names and addresses of the printers by whom they 

 were issued. Thus: — 



