Hunting.- [Turberville (George)] [Noble arte of venerie or hunting; Booke of hunting], [second edition], in blackletter, numerous woodcut illustrations, some whole-page, one of these very slightly trimmed at fore-edge, lacking first gathering ([par]1-4, including initial blank and title) as well as the 4pp. bugle calls with musical notation at end ([cross]1-2), a couple of tiny worm holes at gutter margin (no losses), C5 small marginal tear affecting woodcut but no loss, faint occasional browning, modern calf-backed cloth, [STC 24329], small 4to, [Thomas Purfoot], [1611]

⁂ One of the most important hunting works of the 16th century. Woodcuts include the training of hounds, kennels, quarry such as badger, hare and stag and hunting scenes in Jacobean costume; first published in 1575 the illustrations remained the same excepting the alteration of King James I for Elizabeth I (at p.91). Sometimes attributed to George Gascoigne, it is essentially a translation or adaptation of Du Fouilloux's La Venerie (1560).