Author:
(Berners Dame Juliana)
Title:
The Book of Saint Albans) The Book Containing the Treatises of Hawking, Hunting, Coat-Armour, Fishing and Blasing of Arms. As printed at Westminster, by Wynkyn de Worde; the year of the Incarnation of our Lord, MCCCCLXXXXVI
Price:
£2100.00
Year:
1810
Edition:
limited facsimile edition,
Publisher:
re-printed by Harding and Wright for White, Cochrane and Triphook,
Summary:
(iv)-104-(xiii) facsimile, (xiv) index, 4to with a preface by Joseph Hazlewood, partly black letter, printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, coats-of-arms and initials, Caxton device, and printer's device in red to verso at end, slight toning to main text of the facsimile. Inserted at fi and fvi 2 extra leaves, a copy of the pages printed on one side with a pencil note to upper margin" this page -leaf (?) with my copy" possible original proof pages. Armorial bookplate to front paste down, contemporary ink manuscript to first blank, a copy from the Gentleman's Magazine from June 1806 and to second blank for March 1793 referring to Juliana Barnes and The Book Of Saint Albans. Bound in a contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards, re-backed with the original spine relayed with a later title label. A very good copy of the limited facsimile edition, being one of 150 copies. Detailing early hunting, falconry and angling. The facsimile edition of the Book of Saint Albans (1496), speculatively attributed to Juliana Berners, the first work to use colour printing in England and contains the earliest illustration of a fisherman. Joseph Haslewood has been generally regarded as the most comprehensive scholarly study. This being the first reprinting since the sixteenth century. Schwerdt One, p 63, Westwood and Satchell p 28, Harting p 2, Swift p 41/42.
Ref:
23902
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