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[TUBERVILLE, George]

The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. Wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and kill euery one of them
London
Printed by Thomas Purfoot
1611
€700,00

4°, 244 p without 8 first pag., N3, 245/50 and 4 pp at the end), 48 nice woodcuts on half pag. the same as the first edition of 1575 (except the two full pag. woodcuts on p. 91 and 133), full calf binding of 19th c. Very nice copy

Second edition. The woodblock printed here on I3r has been altered to substitute the effigy of James I for that of Elizabeth I, which appeared in the edition of 1575. Schwerdt II, 271-272; STC 24329