The noble art of venerie or hunting. . Wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and kill euery one of them. Translated & collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approoued authors, ... and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here in this noble realme of Great Britaine.
George Gascoigne (1542-1577)
Category
Books
Date
1611
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 3012149
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],200,[4],201-204,207-250,[4]p. . ill.. (woodcuts),music . 4to.. Imperfect: wanting the preliminary blank leaf. Bound with G. Turberville The booke of falconrie...,1611. Provenance: Bookplate: Earl of Morley. In pencil on flyleaf: Sotheby's 1852 Đ3.15.6.. Binding: Sprinkled calf, gold tooled spine. Scuffed.
Provenance
Listed at Saltram in 1898 and by descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951) 4th Earl of Morley and offered by his executors to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in part payment of Estate Duty
Makers and roles
George Gascoigne (1542-1577) George Turberville (1540-1610)