T., S.]. A Jewell for Gentrie. Being an Exact Dictionary, or True Method, to make any Man vnderstand all the Art, Secrets, and Worthy Knowledges belonging to Hawking, Hunting, Fowling and Fishing. Together with all the True Measures for Winding of the Horne . London: [T. Snodham] for John Helme, 1614. 4° (173 x 120mm). Folding title with large woodcut, 2 sub-titles within typographical border, mostly black letter. (Signature, one catchword and 'Finis' shaved in last 2 leaves, small stab-holes in inner margins throughout with no damage, lightly browned throughout.) 19th-century boards (rubbed). Provenance : Tho[mas] Nelf (later 17th-century signature on title) -- Chaloner Greville (signature) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 15 July 1946, lot 2313). SCHWERDT COPY OF THIS RARE ADAPTATION of Juliana Berners' Book of Hawking, Hunting and Fishing by an anonymous editor who, while accepting that the first edition appeared at St Albans, boasts in the preface: 'Now for as much the defects were so grosse that Trestram himselfe would hardly haue knowne so neare a kinsman, I haue for the worlds generall satisfaction reduc't it so truely to the naturall beautie of his owne Parents, that not the seuerest, but with much content would willingly imbrace it'. This version contains some entertaining collective nouns, both about hunting and other subjects: A laughter of Ostlers, A conuerting of Preachers, A superfluitie of Nunnes, Abhominable sight of Monks, A disworship of Scots, etc. The woodcut on the title is copied from Turberville's The Noble Art of Venerie , published three years previously. Harting 17; Schwerdt I, p. 63: 'rare' (different binding of 'old Russia'); Souhart 50; STC 21529.
T., S.]. A Jewell for Gentrie. Being an Exact Dictionary, or True Method, to make any Man vnderstand all the Art, Secrets, and Worthy Knowledges belonging to Hawking, Hunting, Fowling and Fishing. Together with all the True Measures for Winding of the Horne . London: [T. Snodham] for John Helme, 1614. 4° (173 x 120mm). Folding title with large woodcut, 2 sub-titles within typographical border, mostly black letter. (Signature, one catchword and 'Finis' shaved in last 2 leaves, small stab-holes in inner margins throughout with no damage, lightly browned throughout.) 19th-century boards (rubbed). Provenance : Tho[mas] Nelf (later 17th-century signature on title) -- Chaloner Greville (signature) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 15 July 1946, lot 2313). SCHWERDT COPY OF THIS RARE ADAPTATION of Juliana Berners' Book of Hawking, Hunting and Fishing by an anonymous editor who, while accepting that the first edition appeared at St Albans, boasts in the preface: 'Now for as much the defects were so grosse that Trestram himselfe would hardly haue knowne so neare a kinsman, I haue for the worlds generall satisfaction reduc't it so truely to the naturall beautie of his owne Parents, that not the seuerest, but with much content would willingly imbrace it'. This version contains some entertaining collective nouns, both about hunting and other subjects: A laughter of Ostlers, A conuerting of Preachers, A superfluitie of Nunnes, Abhominable sight of Monks, A disworship of Scots, etc. The woodcut on the title is copied from Turberville's The Noble Art of Venerie , published three years previously. Harting 17; Schwerdt I, p. 63: 'rare' (different binding of 'old Russia'); Souhart 50; STC 21529.
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