Berners (Dame Juliana) [The Book of St Albans]: The Book containing the Treatises of Hawking; Hunting; Coat-Armour; Fishing; and Blasing of Arms, facsimile of the Wynkyn de Worde edition of 1496, [one of 150 copies], printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, armorial bookplate of Charles Eamer Kempe, occasional spotting, some light offsetting, lightly browned, bound in attractive straight-grain green morocco by C. Lewis, spine gilt and with raised bands, covers stamped in blind and with gilt-ruled borders, g.e., spine faded, some light fading to cover extremities, joints and extremities rubbed, [W & S p. 28; Schwerdt I p. 63], small folio, Harding and Wright, for White and Cochrane & R. Triphook, 1810.
⁂ Facsimile of the first English work to include the earliest printed illustration of a fisherman and passages of veterinary interest, the earliest book printed in English relating to falconry, and the first work in England to use colour printing. Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907) was a designer and manufacturer of stained glass.
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