A PERFECT BOOKE FOR KEPINGE OF SPARHAWKES OR GOSHAWKES: WRITTEN ABOUT 1575. By James Edmund Harting.

(1886) 1972 reprint. 8vo (141 x 212mm). Pp(v),xxxii,51. B/w engraving. Short introduction by Phillip Glasier, lengthy introduction and glossary by Harting. Blue cloth.

"...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).