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EDWARD OF NORWICH, Second Duke of York. The Master of Game . . . The Oldest English Book on Hunting. Edited by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman. With a Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. 52 plates. Half-title. Folio, 400x280 mm, later leather with author's seal from the original binding mounted on front cover, worn, bottom of spine chipped; minor marginal repairs on half-title and frontispiece, small stain on title, contents otherwise generally clean. London, 1904
first edition, giving the Middle English original text and a modern English version in parallel columns;number 68 of 600 numbered copies. The early 15th-century work by the Duke of York was largely translated from the late 14th-century Livre de Chasse by Gaston III, Count of Foix. The plates in this edition reproduce miniatures from an early manuscript of the latter work in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Sarton II, 1629-31; Schwerdt II, 305 ("the introductory chapters and bibliographical notes are of greatest interest").
