Short discourse of hawking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes and Short discovrse of havvking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes
Description:
Armorial bookplate: Ex libris David Wagstaff. Binder’s stamp: J. Kulesho., P. [6]-[7], consists of a poem concerning falconry, that begins "A perfect plot how for to hawke ...", P. 73-76 omitted from pagination., Signatures: A-I⁸., and The author is unknown although it is thought he was from Kent as there are a number of references to the county in the work, including the following from p. 55: "... diuers Kentish ge[n]tlemen, some of my kindred and others of my acquaintance ..."
Publisher:
for Thomas Man
Subject (Name):
Wagstaff, David, 1882-1951
Subject (Topic):
Falconry -- Early works to 1800 and Hunting -- Early works to 1800
Added title page, engraved, signed: Tho. Cecill sculp., After the Table of the experiments (signatures [A4-a3]) a list of "Books printed for William Lee" [and others] 4 columns on 1 leaf (signature [a4])., and Appended: (1) His Lops vsuall receipt for the gout, to which the sixtieth experiment hath reference. 1 leaf (verso blank) (2) New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished. [n.p., n.d.] (3) History naturall and experimentall, of life and death. 1650.
First edition, second issue, with leaf N4 reprinted and a quire inserted after it., Imperfect: both blank leaves wanting; frontispiece misbound after leaf AB3., and Signatures: AB4(AB1 frontispiece; AB4 blank) C-H4I2K-N4(j-iij)40-L14Mm2(Mm2 blank).
Publisher:
Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the Black-Friers, neere Ludgate,
Subject (Topic):
Poetry, Modern--15th and 16th centuries, Poetry--Aesthetics, Poetry--Early works to 1800, and Poetry--Study and teaching
[Parts 2-3] have special title pages., Collation: [pt. 1]: 16 p.l., 69 p. : fold. front., illus.; [pt. 2]: 4 p.l., 72 p.; [pt.3]: 4 p.l., 12 p., Frontispiece wanting. Portions of the imprint of [pt. 1] indistinct. 2nd-4th p.l. of [pt. 3] (sig. second A3) misbound before p. [1] of [pt. 1]. No. 1-3 of 5 items bound together. Pt. 2-3 also separately cataloged., Part 1 bound with parts 2-3 (also separately cataloged) and two other titles. To view other titles search by call no.: Bi25 18., Signatures: [pt. 1]:*⁸ **⁸ B-E⁸ F⁴(F4 blank); [pt. 2]: A⁴ B-E⁸ F⁴; [pt. 3]:A1 A³ A2-7., and The Huntington check-list gives the collation of [pt. 3] as follows: A1,A(repeated)⁴(last, prob. blank, lacking)A(cont’d)⁷(last, prob. blank, lacking).
Publisher:
Printed by I.N. for John Rothvvell, and are to be sold at the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard, and by Henry Overton in Popes-head Alley