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the Long Shop adioyning unto | St. Mildred’s Church in the i 
Pultrie, 1586. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 4to, 11. 44. Black ILcttcr. 
Note . — About seven Black Hetter undated editions, five^of 
48 11. and two of 46 11., appeared in sm. 4to, between 1496 and 
1586. Another edition was printed in 1595 by G. Markham 
(q.v. under Markham), and one in 1614 entitled “ A Jewell for 
Gentrie,” q.v. under Anonymous. 
Bert (Edmund), ca. 1619 
According to Mr. Harting (Bibl. Accip.) this author lived 
at Collier Bow, near Bomford, Essex. “ He used to ride out 
of Essex into Sussex to hawk over the Downs, where, he says, 
c I have killed for the most part of a moneth together with 
an intermewed goshawke eight, nine or tenne Partridges in 
a day . 5 55 
Only one early edition appeared of his work, and it is 
one of the rarest of Falconry books, but in 1891 Mr. Quaritch 
issued a reprint, edited by Mr. Harting, and limited to 100 
copies. 
1619. An | Approved | Treatise of | Hawkes and Hawking. | Divided into 
three Bookes. | The first teacheth, How to make a short-winged 
Hawke good, with good conditions. | The second, How to re- 
claime a Hawke from any ill condition. | The third teacheth, 
Cures for all knowne grief es and diseases. | By Edmund Bert, 
Gentleman. | [Woodcut of Hawk and its furniture.] | London, | 
Printed by T. S. for Richard Moore, and are to be | sold at his 
shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard. | 1619. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 4to, pp. xvi un. + pp. 109. 
(Copy in Brit. Mus. Lib.) 
1891. Bert’s Treatise of Hawks and Hawking : for the first time reprinted 
from the original of 1619. With an Introduction by J. E. Harting. 
London (Quaritch) : 1891. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, pp. vii + pp. 109. 
Beveridge (D.). See Dalgleish (J. J.) 
Bewick (Thomas), 1 1753-1828 
Bewick was, in the strict sense of the word, hardly an 
ornithologist at all. He wrote only a portion of the famous 
1 For a full memoir of Bewick see Mr. Mullens’s article in British Birds, April 1909. 
