Turbervile's Booke of hunting, 1576.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Tudor & Stuart library

Standardized Title:

Booke of hunting

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting--Great Britain.

Hunting.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

250 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, music ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

Noble arte of venerie or hunting

Place of Publication:

[Oxford] : Clarendon Press ; New York : [Oxford University Press], 1908.

Notes:

"Reprinted page for page and line for line from the Bodleian copy of the black-letter edition of 1576. A very few obvious misprints have been corrected"--T.p. verso.

Original title: The noble arte of venerie or hvnting wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiuetene sundrie chances togither, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England.

"The measures of blowing set downe in the notes ...": 4 p. of music at end.

OCLC:

30571955