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The master of game

Title: The master of game, by Edward, second duke of York. The oldest English book on hunting; ed. by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. With 52 facsimile photogravure plates and monotint reproductions.
Author: Edward, of Norwich, Duke of York, 1373?-1415.
Publication: London, Pub. for the editors by Ballantyne, Hanson, & co., 1904.

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Description

liii, 286 p. 3 illus., LII pl. (incl. col. front.); 41 x 29 cm.

Subject

Hunting

Note

"Only 600 copies bound with these plates are for sale, of which half are reserved for subscribers in England, the remainder for America and the Continent.
"List of books consulted": p. l-liii.
"General bibliography of books and mss. on hunting in the principal European languages up to the end of the 16th century": p. [213]-272.
"Glossary of the obsolete sporting terms and words": p. [273]-279.
Composed between 1406 & 1413, the greater part being a translation from Gaston Phoebus' Livre de chasse. Text follows the Cottoman M.S. (c. 1420) with a parallel rendering into modern English. Illustrations reproduce 45 of the 88 miniatures in the French MS. 616 of Gaston Phoebus in the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Bound in tan undressed calf; Edward's arms stamped on outer front cover.

Call Number

MYN++ (Edward. Master of game)

LCCN

05002634

OCLC

317060

Author

Edward, of Norwich, Duke of York, 1373?-1415.

Title

The master of game, by Edward, second duke of York. The oldest English book on hunting; ed. by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. With 52 facsimile photogravure plates and monotint reproductions.

Imprint

London, Pub. for the editors by Ballantyne, Hanson, & co., 1904.

Added Author

Baillie-Grohman, William A. (William Adolph), 1851-1921.

Baillie-Grohman, Florence Nickalls.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.

Gaston III Phœbus, Count of Foix, 1331-1391.

Research Call Number

MYN++ (Edward. Master of game)

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