THE ART AND PRACTICE OF HAWKING. By E.B. Michell. First edition.

1900 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 230mm). Ppxii,291 + 40pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Plates by G.E. Lodge, and from photographs. Binding A - Red cloth, spine titled and illustrated in gilt, upper board with hawk and quarry motif in gilt.

"The object of the author has been to describe as briefly as was consistent with clearness the birds now chiefly used in the chase, and the manner of training and flying them. His hope is that some of the sportsmen who read these pages many, in spite of the difficulties which they will have to encounter, resolve to give this old and honourable sport a trial". Chapters include: History and literature; The birds used in hawking; Furniture and fittings; Eyesses and hack hawks; Passage hawks; Training and entering; Rook hawking; Game hawking; Lark hawking; Gulls, heron, kite, duck, etc; The goshawk; The sparrow-hawk; Home life; Hawks in the field; Lost hawks; Accidents and maladies; Moulting; Virtue and vice; Anecdotes and adventures.