The Boke of Saint Albans
Reading edition
BY
DAME JULIANA BERNERS
CONTAINING
TREATISES ON HAWKING, HUNTING, AND COTE ARMOUR:
PRINTED AT SAINT ALBANS BY THE SCHOOLMASTER-PRINTER IN 1486
REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE
With an Introduction by
WILLIAM BLADES
AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE AND TYPOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CAXTON”
LONDON
ELLIOT STOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
“Manhood I am, therefore I me delyght
To hunt and hawke, to nourish up and fede
The greyhounde to the course, the hawke to th’ flight,
And to bestryde a good and lusty stede.”
From Sir Thomas More’s Poems.
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