1 option
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, 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 Great Britaine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gascoigne, George, -1577.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hunting--Early works to 1800.
- Hunting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 200 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 201-204, 207-250 pages, 4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (woodcuts), music
- Other Title:
- Noble arte of venerie or hunting
- Booke of hunting.
- Place of Publication:
- At London : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, An. Dom. 1611.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- By George Gascoigne, whose name appears on [par.]3v.
- An adaptation of: Fouilloux, Jacques du. La vénerie.
- Partly in verse.
- Usually bound with an edition of "The booke of falconrie or hawking" by George Turberville, to whom this work is sometimes attributed.
- The first leaf is blank.
- Running title reads: The booke of hunting.
- The last two leaves contain bugle calls.
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Print faded and show-through with some lost print on pages 93 and 150. Pages 80-105 and 140-163 from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library copy spliced at end.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1367:10) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd edition) 24329.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.