CATALOGUE OF BOOKS 



RELATING TO 



FALCONRY. 



Note. — To show the progress of the literature^ the titles are arranged in 

 chronological order under countries ; but the work of any author 

 may be found at once by reference to the Index at the end of the 

 volume. 



I. BARNES (Juliana). The Boke of St. Albans 



containing the Treatises of Hawking, Hunting and 



Coat-Armour. Printed at St. Albans, i486, sm. folio. 



[Reproduced in facsimile with an Introduction 



by William Blades. London, 188 1. 4to.] 



Black letter, 88 leaves, without title-page, pagination, or catch- 

 words. The earliest English printed book, although not the 

 earliest English treatise, which relates to Falconry. Attributed 

 to Dame Juliana Barnes, Bernes, or Berners, whose name occurs 

 in the first edition (fol. 23) as " Barnes," and in the second 

 edition as " Bernes." It is not, however, an original composi- 

 tion, but a compilation from earlier MSS. (See No. 81 of this 

 Catalogue, pp. vii.-viii., and No. 79, pp. 96-108.) 



The colophon runs : — " Here in thys boke afore are conteynt 

 the bokys of Haukyng and Huntyng wyth other plesuris dy verse 

 as in the boke apperis and also of Coot-armuris a nobull werke. 

 And here now endyth the boke of blasying of armys translatyt 



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