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The noble art of venerie or hunting. Wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and kill euery one of them. Translated & collected ... out of the best approved authors ... .

Accession number
PML 150046.2
Creator
Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
Published
London, Printed by T. Purfoot, 1611.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
"The measures of blowing set downe in the notes": 4 unnumbered pages at end.
STC no. 24329.
Woodcuts.
An English adaptation, generally attributed to Turberville, of J. du Fouilloux' La vénerie; sometimes also ascribed to G. Gascoigne whose verse "In the commendation of the noble arte of venerie" appears in this work.
Description
1 v
Provenance
From the Lord Vernon Collection. George Sedley lettered on covers. Book label of Lord Vernon. From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Classification
Department