The book containing the treatises of hawking, hunting, coat-armour, fishing, and blasing of arms
By: as printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde, 1496. [With biographical and bibliographical notices by Joseph Haselwood.]
Published: 1810
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Work titles: Boke of Saint Albans
Notes: 150 copies printed.

The introduction is dated 1811.--On side of the last leaf is the device of Wynkyn de Worde, and on the other that of Caxton.

This is a fac-simile reprint of the second edition of the work now commonly known as the Book of Saint Albans, which contains the first printed treatise on angling in the English language. The first edition appeared in 1486, and does not include the "Treatyse of fysshynge."

Gift of Daniel B. Fearing, 30 June, 1915