The master of game.
Subtitle: The oldest English book on hunting
Contributors: Baillie-Grohman, Florence (Nickalls); Baillie-Grohman, William A. 1851-1921; Gaston III Phœbus, Count of Foix, 1331-1391
Publisher: Published for the editors by Ballantyne, Hanson
Published: 1904
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Hunting -- Early works to 1800
Notes: "Written between the years 1406 and 1413.  The greater part ... is a careful translation from ... Count Gaston de Foix's Livre de chasse.

Of the thirty six chapters ... only five are original.  These are printed in italics in the Old English text.  The latter is reproduced from the Cottonian ms. Vespasian B.XII, dating from about 1420.  Side by side with the old text a modernised version is printed."

"General bibliography of books and mss. on hunting in the principal European languages up to the end of the 16th century": p. [213]-272.

Bibliography: p. L-liii.

Microfilm (negative) Washington, Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1966. 1 reel.