[Gascoigne], The noble art of venerie or hunting, London, 1611, later calf gilt

[George Gascoigne]

The noble art of venerie or hunting.... translated & collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approoved authors... London: Thomas Purfoot, 1611

4to (178 x 131mm.), large woodcut illustration of a hunting scene on title-page, numerous other woodcut illustrations, without initial blank, nineteenth-century calf gilt in period style, lacking 2 leaves of prelims and final 2 leaves (containing bugle calls), small stain on woodcut on M7v, one woodcut shaved at foredge, last few quires very slightly shorter, rebacked

Gascoigne's adaptation of Du Fouilloux's La Venerie was first published in 1575; in this edition the presence of Elizabeth I has been replaced by James I in the illustration of the royal hunt.

LITERATURE:

ESTC S118822; STC 24329; Schwerdt 2:272

PROVENANCE:

Vernon Watney (of Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire), green morocco booklabel; J.G.S Sebright, inscription dated 1824; S[amuel] Johnes Knight (1756-1852, rector of Welwyn), the gift of Sir Thomas Gage S. Sebright (1802-1864), inscription dated 14 January 1831