Berners (Dame J.) The Book...of Hawking...

Berners (Dame Juliana) The Book...of Hawking; Hunting; Coat-Armour, Fishing; and Blasing of Arms [Book of St. Albans],one of 150 copies, facsimile of the 1496 edition by Wynkyn de Worde, printed in red and black, illustrations and coats-of-arms, half-title spotted, some offsetting, small ink smudge on title, John Resler Swift's copy with his bookplate and a T.L.s. from Swift stating the provenance loosely inserted, later morocco, t.e.g., a little rubbed, [Schwerdt I, p.63; Westwood & Satchell p.28], small folio, White and Cochrane and R. Triphook, 1810.

***An attractive facsimile of the first work in England to use colour printing, and the first to include the earliest printed illustration of a fisherman and passages of veterinary interest and the earliest book printed in the english language which relates to falconry..