ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF FALCONRY. Edited by Kenyon Gibson. Hemp paper issue.

2004 1st edition. Hemp paper issue. Large 8vo (171 x 257mm). Ppx,207. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and colour and b/w plates. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt falcon vignette on upper board. One of 50 signed and numbered copies. (Signed at the end of the Introduction and numbered on of which are printed on hemp paper made by John Hanson of Lyme Regis". A falconry collection including works on Syrian, Afghan, Indian, Persian, Arab, North African and Mongolian hawking. Notes on the houbara, lesser florican, little bustard, hoopoe, jack snipe and other game birds are included in the context of falconry. Pieces by Sid Mohamed El Mangali, Sir John Chardin, Sir John Malcolm, D.C. Phillott, Stephen Biddulph, Stuart Baker, F.H. Salvin, Charles Thompson, Gerard Lascelles and C.H. Donald. Many of these are previously unpublished or unavailable in English. It is a most unusual book in that many of the plates and illustrations have been tipped-in by hand. This is the last in this series of three volumes on Eastern falconry to be published by the Eryr Press.