1886 1st edition thus. Bernard Quaritch. London. Square 8vo. Ppxxxii,51. Engraved frontispiece. Leather-backed paper-covered boards. #75 of only 100 copies printed. Spine rubbed & sl cracked. Boards worn but good. Bookplate *
Notes: "...Now first printed from the original MS. on Vellum. With Introduction and Glossary by J.E. Harting." An Elizabethan treatise on the training of sparrowhawks. "Written about 1575, the original vellum ms. was discovered in a country home, where it lain forgotten for several hundred years; its authorship has not been established." (Cave). * End-papers browned. Front paste-down bears the bookplate of falconry author Graham Wellstead.
