pp. 55-60, and part iv. pp. 213-222), collected from various sources, with facsimile woodcuts from Turbervile (No. 15).

76. LACROIX (Paul). MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND DRESS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. London. 1877. 4to.

A translation from the French (which see) with full-page illuminated plates, and engravings from early MSS., a chapter being devoted to Falconry (pp. 195-212).

77. HARTING (J. E.). THE ORNITHOLOGY OF SHAKESPEARE, critically examined, explained and illustrated. London, John Van Voorst. 1871. 8vo.

Contains a chapter on "Hawks and Hawking" (pp. 49-82), explaining the Hawking terms used by Shakespeare, with illustrations from other authors, and some curious statistics concerning the prices paid for hawks, and the practice of the art in the 16th century. The frontispiece represents Shakespeare with a falcon on his glove, drawn by J. Wolf, the only portrait of Shakespeare with a hawk.

78. HARTING (J. E.).

The article "Falconry,"

revised, in Stonehenge's "Rural Sports."

edition. London. 1880. 8vo.

Fifteenth

79. HARTING (J. E.). Essays on SPORT AND NATURAL HISTORY. London, Horace Cox. 1883. 8vo.

Contains chapters on Hunting and Hawking, the Boke of St. Albans, Hawking as taught by the Boke, Taking Passage Hawks in Holland, How to Train a Passage Hawk, and a review of an Arabic Treatise on Hawking.

80. HARTING (J. E.). HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HAWKS. London, Horace Cox. 1884. 8vo.

The various steps to be taken in taming, training, feeding, and flying hawks are detailed from personal knowledge, and from

the teaching of two experienced professional falconers, the late John Barr, and Adrian Mollen, of Valkenswaard.

81. HARTING (J. E.). A PERFECTE BOOKE FOR KEPINGE OF SPARHAWKES OR GOSHAWKES. Written about 1575. Now first printed from the original MS. on vellum. With Introduction and Glossary by J. E. Harting. London, Quaritch. 1886. sm. 4to.

The original MS. is in the possession of Mr. W. A. TyssenAmherst, of Didlington Hall, Norfolk. The Introduction (pp. i.-xxxii.) embodies a review of the Early English literature of falconry (including manuscripts), and appended to the treatise (pp. 39-51) is a "glossary" of all the technical terms employed by Falconers. Only 100 copies of this treatise have been published.

82. HARTING (J. E.). The article "Falconry" in Chambers' "Encyclopædia," new edition. Edinburgh and London. 1889. 4to.

Dutch.

83. MAERLANT (Jacob van).

DER NATURA BLOEMEN Historia Naturalis Metrica. Leyden, n.d.

This work, preserved in MS. at Leyden, is cited by Schlegel as being mentioned in a "Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliotheca Lugduno Batava DESCRIPSIT J. Geel, 1852" (p. 195, No. 659), and contains some remarks on Falconry, relating chiefly to the diseases of hawks and the remedies for them.

84. MERULA (Paul G. F.). PLACATEN ENDE ORDONANCIEN Op t'stuck van de Wildernissen in orde gesteld door Paul G. F. Merulam, Dordracenum. In's Gravenhage bij B. C. Nieulant. 1605. folio.

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PLACATEN EN ORDENANCIEN op 't stuck van de Wildernisse, Hout-Vesterye, Vogelerye, ende van Merula uytgegeven. 'S

Visscherye.

Gravenhage. 1672. 4to.

According to Schlegel the third book, entitled Ixeutica of Vlught-Bedrijf, contains a brief account of Falconry in Holland. 85. ACKERSDIJCK (W. C.). DE Valkenjagt te VALKENSWAARD EN WAALRE. 1838. 8vo.

Nieuwe Algemeene Konst-en Letterbode. 1838. ii. p. 179. Unknown to Schlegel. See also an anonymous pamphlet, published at the Hague in 1840, entitled "Quelques détails sur les Faucons et l'art de les dresser à la chasse." Both these publications refer to the doings of the Loo Hawking Club in Holland.

86. WULVERHORST (A. H. (A. H. Verster van). Geschiedkundige Aanteekeningen over het Jagtwezen. Amsterdam. 1840.

Not seen; cited by Schlegel and said to contain some observations on Falconry (pp. 25-40). Wulverhorst was part author with Schlegel of the Traité de Fauconnerie.

German.

87. ANON. DAS ERSTE BUCH vahet also an und leret paissen [beyssen, beizen, oder beitzen] und auch den Habich erkenne Augsburg [c. 1472]. sm. 4to. Black letter, 46 leaves unpaged, and without signatures; 22 lines to a page. Without author's name or date. The earliest printed book on Falconry in any language. Extremely rare. The only copy mentioned by bibliographers is one formerly in the library of the Abbé de Bearzi.