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.

Author/creator Gascoigne, George
Other author Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?, attributed name.
Other author Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAt London : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, An. Dom. 1611.
Description[8], 200, [4], 201-204, 207-250, [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts), music
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Variant title Noble arte of venerie or hunting
Variant title Booke of hunting.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteBy George Gascoigne, whose name appears on [par.]3v.
General noteAn adaptation of: Fouilloux, Jacques du. La vénerie.
General notePartly in verse.
General noteUsually bound with an edition of "The booke of falconrie or hawking" by George Turberville, to whom this work is sometimes attributed.
General noteThe first leaf is blank.
General noteRunning title reads: The booke of hunting.
General noteThe last two leaves contain bugle calls.
General noteReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
General notePrint 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.
References STC (2nd ed.) 24329.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1367:10)
Other title Vénerie.
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