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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[booth 
to be included in this work, which, as they are of consider- 
able rarity and some interest, are set out below. The title 
quoted is that of the first dated edition, and the collation is 
from Dr. Furnivall’s treatise above mentioned. 
1562. Here Folo | weth a Compendyous Re | gimente or Dyetary of 
health, | made in Mountpyllor : Com | pyled by Andrewe 
Boorde, of Phy | sycke Doctor | Anno Domini, m.d.lxii. | xn. 
'Die Mensis | Januarii | [woodcut of an astronomer] [Imprint.] 
Imprinted by | me Thomas Colwel. Dwel | lynge in the house 
of Robert Wyer, | at the Signe of S. John Evan | gelyst besyde 
Charynge | Crosse. | 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, 61 11. 
“ The xv. chapitre treateth of wylde fowle, and tame fowle 
byrdes. 
“ Of all wylde foule the Eesaunt is most beste, althoughe that a 
partreche of all fowles is soonest dygested ; wherefore it is a 
restoratyve meate, and dothe comforte the brayne and the 
stomacke, and doth augment carnall lust. A wood-cocke is a 
meate of good temperaunce. Quayles and plovers and lap- 
wynges doth nourysshe but lytel, for they doth ingender melan- 
coly humours. A crane is hard of dygestyon, and doth ingender 
evyll blode. A yonge herensew is lyghter of dygestyon than a 
crane. A bustarde well kylled and orderyd is a nutrytyve meate. 
A Byttoure is not so harde of dygestyon as is an herensew. A 
shoueler is lyghter of dygestyon than a byttoure : all these be 
noyfull except they be well ordered and dressyd. A fesaunt 
henne, a more-cocke and a more-henne, except they be sutt 
abrode, they be nutrytyve. All manner of wylde foule the which 
lyveth by the water, they be of dyscommendable nowrysshement. 
“ Of Byrdes 
“ All manner of smale Byrdes be good and lyght of dygestyon, 
excepte sparrows, whiche be harde of dygestyon. Tytmoses, 
colmoses, and wrens, the whiche doth eate spyders and poyson, 
be not commendable. Of all smale byrdes the larke is beste : 
than is praysed the blacke byrde and the thrusshe. Rasis and 
Isaac prayseth the yonge staares ; but I do thynke, because they 
be bytter in etyng, they should ingender colour. 
Booth (Edward Thomas), 1840-90 
This famous collector and field ornithologist w^as born 
at Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, June 2, 1840, being 
