THE ART OF FALCONRY. By The Hon. Gerald Lascelles.

(1892) 1971 new edition. Small 8vo (125 x 190mm). Pp172. B/w illustrations from photographs, engravings by George Lodge and others. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

Originally published in 1892 as part of the Badminton Library volume on "Coursing and Falconry". Chapters include: The modern falconer, implements used; The peregrine, eyasses, training, game hawking; The peregrine, passage hawks, advantages of how caught, mode of training, lost hawks; Gerfalcons, kite hawking, hare hawking, merlins, how managed, lark hawking, the hobby, the lanner, the sacre, shahins, sport in India; The short-winged hawks, goshawks, how obtained, rabbit hawking, the sparrow-hawk, blackbird hawking; Celebrated falconers, Scothc, Dutch and english clubs, The Loo Club, The Old Hawking Club, famous hawks; general management, news, blocks, perches, condition, feeding, various diseases, general hints.