British Museum, but one was sold by Messrs. Sotheby & Wilkinson (Lot 394) on the 11th April 1885. It was reprinted on vellum by Gosden in 1820, with the following title :—

THE YOUNG SPORTSMAN'S INSTRUCTOR: or Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, Ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Coneys, Hares, and Dogs, and how to cure them. By G. M. Sold at the Gold Ring in Little Britain. n.d. [1652]. 32mo.

On the half-title "THE YOUNG SPORTSMAN'S INSTRUCTOR. London. Reprinted for T. Gosden by J. Johnson, Apollo Press, Brook Street, Holborn, 1820."

This curious and diminutive volume, of which a copy is in the British Museum (C. 29. a 24), measures only 2 by 1 inches, and contains pp. vi., 136, and one leaf, as follows:-The Young Angler's Instructor, pp. 1-76. The Art of Fowling, pp. 77-112. Instructions for the Huntsman, pp. 113-122. Directions for Hawking and Managing Hawks to fly at all game with success, pp. 123-130. Concluding with the words " And thus much for the princely recreation of Hawking." On the last page (p. 136) a recipe headed "Hawks, to cure of all inward sickness, all sorts of wormes," etc. Westwood and Satchell (Bibl. Piscat., p. 147) notice two later editions, 1707 and 1712, with slightly different titles and some additions. The letters G. M. on the title, usually attributed to "Gervase Markham," must be taken only to imply that the subject-matter was borrowed from his writings he himself having died before the first edition of this little book had appeared.

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8. MARKHAM (Gervase). TION; or the whole Arte of Fowling by Water and Land. Containing all the Secrets belonging to that Arte, etc. By Gervase Markham, London. Printed by A. Math. for Anne Helme and Thomas Langley, and are to be sold at their shops in Saint Dunstons Church-yard, and over against the Sarazens head without Newgate. 1621. 12mo.

Frontispiece, 6 prelim. leaves, with Dedication to Sir Edwin Sands, Kt., and others, pp. 1-285: Hawks, pp. 134-183, with cuts of the Haggard Faulcon and Goshawk (pp. 182-183).

Another edition, varying only in the title-page, "Printed for Francis Grove and are to be sold by Martha Harrison at the signe of the Lambe at the east end of St. Paules Church, 1655."

12mo.

9. ELYOT (Sir Thomas, Knt.). THE BOKE NAMED the Governor, devised by Sir Thomas Elyot, Knyght. London, 1531.

sm. 8vo.

Chapter xviii. is entitled "The auncient huntyng of Greekes and Romans," and contains some remarks on the origin of Falconry which the author confesses his inability to discover. He quotes Pliny (lib. x. cap. 10), who seems to have copied Aristotle in his description of hawking in Thrace, and conjectures that "from Thracia came this disporte of hauking," adding, "but in what wise or wheresoever the beginninge of hauking was, surely it is a right delectable solace "; and, a little further on, "hauking measurably used and for a passetyme gyveth to a man good appetite to his souper." He alludes to the old sport of "daring larks with a Hobby," which he himself had witnessed. This sport is described by Nicholas Cox (No. 38, pp. 58, 59), and noticed by Somervile (No. 45, ed. 1813, p. 103). Sir Thomas Elyot's "Boke" has been several times reprinted, as in 1534, 1537, 1544, 1546, 1547, 1553, 1557, 1565, 1580. In 1834 a new edition in 8vo, by A. T. Eliot, was published at Newcastle, and the latest, edited by H. S. Croft, with Notes, in 2 vols. 4to, appeared in 1880. (London, Kegan Paul & Co.)

IO. ANON. THE INSTITUTION OF A GENTLEMAN. Anno Domini M.DLXVIII. Imprinted at London in Flete-strete, nere unto Saint Dunstone's Church by Thomas Marshe. [Second edition. The first, 1555. 12mo.]

The oldest English treatise on the subject, long preceding the publications of Peacham and Brathwait, and a very scarce little book. The unknown author "bryngeth in good occasion to

speake here of Haulkinge and Huntynge for because in these dayes [1555] manye Gentlemen wil do almoste nothinge els, or at the leaste can do that better than any other thing." Considering "what pastimes gentlemen ought to use," he remarks :— "Ther is a saying emong hunters that he cannot be a gentleman whyche loveth not hawkyng and hunting, which I have hard old Woodmen wel allow as an approved sentence among them. The like sayinge is that hee cannot bee a gentleman whych loveth not a dogge."

After insinuating that sportsmen, as a rule, are not learned men, because they give nearly all their time to field sports to the neglect of books, he adds:-"Yet may it cum to passe that these daylye haukers and hunters in tayking of a hauke cannot easely be amended, neyther to reclayme her, to knowe howe many cotes shee is of, to gyve her a measurable gorge, to deserne perfit induing, to know when a hauke is ful summed, to know likewise her diseases, as the craye, the frounce and others, to selde a hauke, to impe her, to cope her, wyth many termes moe, whych thyngs and others knowenne, a manne maye bee a perfeite good Falconer."

Copies of both the first and second editions of this scarce little book are in the British Museum (232 a. 43. and 722 a. 14) and one of the second edition in the Bodleian Library. From a copy of the second edition in the possession of the late Mr. George Singer, an admirable reprint was made in 1839 at the Chiswick Press, of which only 25 copies were issued, "for presentation." One of these is in the writer's possession. II. MAPLET (John). A GREENE FOREST, or, naturall Historie: Wherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne Vertues in all the whole kinde of Stones and Mettals: next of Plants . . . . Lastly of Brute Beastes, Foules, etc. . . . . Compiled by John Maplet, M. of Arte and Student in Cambridge. Anno 1567. Imprinted at London by Henry Denham.

12mo.

Title within border, pp. i.-xiv. and 112 leaves black letter. On the verso of last leaf, "Imprinted at London by Henry