DAME JULIANA BERNERS. TREATISE OF HAWKING. SAINT ALBANS 1 OF ONLY 150 COPIES
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DAME JULIANA BERNERS. TREATISE OF HAWKING. SAINT ALBANS 1 OF ONLY 150 COPIES
DAME JULIANA BERNERS. TREATISE OF HAWKING. SAINT ALBANS 1 OF ONLY 150 COPIES ... Click images to enlarge Description
THE BOOK CONTAINING THE TREATISES OF HAWKING [ DAME JULIANA BERNERS ]
THE BOOK CONTAINING THE TREATISES OF HAWKING; HUNTING; COAT-ARMOUR; FISHING; AND BLASING OF ARMS. AS PRINTED AT WESTMINSTER BY WYNKYN DE WORDE THE YEAR OF THE INCARNATION OF OUR LORD . . . MCCCCLXXXXVI. HALF-TITLE PAGE, LITERARY RESEARCHES INTO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF SAINT ALBANS. Dame Juliana Berners. Reprinted by Harding and Wright, for White and Cochrane Fleet Street and R Triphook St James Street London, 1810/1811. 1 of only 150 copies, in its original full morocco leather binding by Charles Hering, re-cased, with a new spine, his binders ticket on verso of front free endpaper, all edges gilt. With woodcuts based on those in the 1496 edition, numerous woodcuts of fishing implements and heraldic shields in the text, and with the printer's device of Wynkyn de Worde and that of William Caxton in the colophon and following the index. Front paste down with two very nice private bookplates, Walter Harold Wilkin and James Stevens Cox, (both were Historians and Authors), also a very interesting inscription stating, “W A Ballie Graham, bought this copy at the Gilbey sale 21st June 1915”. This is a facsimile of the 1496 printing by Wynkyn de Worde of the first modern edition of the classic work on hunting, hawking, fishing, and heraldry, our copy with distinguished provenance and in a very striking binding--in extraordinarily fine condition--by the best English binder of the early 19th century. The "Book of St. Albans" was traditionally attributed to a Benedictine prioress, Dame Juliana Berners (b. 1388), which gave her the distinction of being the earliest known female author in English. However, in his scholarly introduction, Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) determines that only the work on hunting, and a portion of that on hawking, may comfortably be attributed to her. The other sections on heraldry, angling, and the details of hawking are translations (possibly done by Berners) of earlier works, probably in French. A bibliographer, antiquary, and founding member of the Roxburghe Club, Haslewood was well respected as an editor of early English literature. Charles Hering (died circa 1812) was the most distinguished and influential English binder of the first decade of the 19th century, and although his career was brief (from about 1795-1812), Ramsden focuses on his work as representing the transition in binding styles from those of the German émigrés of the late 18th century to the new generation of binders headed by Lewis. Dibdin states that until "the star of Charles Lewis rose above the bibliopegistic horizon, no one could presume to 'measure business' with [Hering]. There was a strength, squareness, and a good style of work about his volumes which rendered him deservedly a great favourite." (The Hering family workshop was continued, though with less distinction, by Charles Jr. and his brothers James and Henry into the 1830s.) This is a facsimile of the 1496 printing by Wynkyn de Worde of the first modern edition of the classic work on hunting, hawking, fishing, and heraldry. Although generally stated as published 1810, it was actually published 1811. A stunning and very important book with some very nice ownership provenance.
The introduction is dated 1811. This is a facsimile 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."
The facsimile itself (final unpaginated section) has preliminary half-title leaf reading "The book, containing the treatises of hawking, hunting, &c. &c." followed by a repeat of the main title-page
Many pages printed in red and black.
Colophon at foot of verso of final leaf reads: Harding and Wright, printers, St. John's Square, London".
Covers are a bit rubbed, inside, front hinge cracked, some small insect damage to the hinge, text block is very nicely age toned, some original offsetting from the 1496 edition. 11.25" x 8".
All in all a very nice copy and now 207 years old in its own right. An incredibly rare book, 1 of only 150 copies printed, I can only see one other copy for sale worldwide, (that copy is priced at nearly $10, 000). A beautiful thing.
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DAME JULIANA BERNERS. TREATISE OF HAWKING. SAINT ALBANS 1 OF ONLY 150 COPIES ... Click images to enlarge Description
THE BOOK CONTAINING THE TREATISES OF HAWKING [ DAME JULIANA BERNERS ]
THE BOOK CONTAINING THE TREATISES OF HAWKING; HUNTING; COAT-ARMOUR; FISHING; AND BLASING OF ARMS. AS PRINTED AT WESTMINSTER BY WYNKYN DE WORDE THE YEAR OF THE INCARNATION OF OUR LORD . . . MCCCCLXXXXVI. HALF-TITLE PAGE, LITERARY RESEARCHES INTO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF SAINT ALBANS. Dame Juliana Berners. Reprinted by Harding and Wright, for White and Cochrane Fleet Street and R Triphook St James Street London, 1810/1811. 1 of only 150 copies, in its original full morocco leather binding by Charles Hering, re-cased, with a new spine, his binders ticket on verso of front free endpaper, all edges gilt. With woodcuts based on those in the 1496 edition, numerous woodcuts of fishing implements and heraldic shields in the text, and with the printer's device of Wynkyn de Worde and that of William Caxton in the colophon and following the index. Front paste down with two very nice private bookplates, Walter Harold Wilkin and James Stevens Cox, (both were Historians and Authors), also a very interesting inscription stating, “W A Ballie Graham, bought this copy at the Gilbey sale 21st June 1915”. This is a facsimile of the 1496 printing by Wynkyn de Worde of the first modern edition of the classic work on hunting, hawking, fishing, and heraldry, our copy with distinguished provenance and in a very striking binding--in extraordinarily fine condition--by the best English binder of the early 19th century. The "Book of St. Albans" was traditionally attributed to a Benedictine prioress, Dame Juliana Berners (b. 1388), which gave her the distinction of being the earliest known female author in English. However, in his scholarly introduction, Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) determines that only the work on hunting, and a portion of that on hawking, may comfortably be attributed to her. The other sections on heraldry, angling, and the details of hawking are translations (possibly done by Berners) of earlier works, probably in French. A bibliographer, antiquary, and founding member of the Roxburghe Club, Haslewood was well respected as an editor of early English literature. Charles Hering (died circa 1812) was the most distinguished and influential English binder of the first decade of the 19th century, and although his career was brief (from about 1795-1812), Ramsden focuses on his work as representing the transition in binding styles from those of the German émigrés of the late 18th century to the new generation of binders headed by Lewis. Dibdin states that until "the star of Charles Lewis rose above the bibliopegistic horizon, no one could presume to 'measure business' with [Hering]. There was a strength, squareness, and a good style of work about his volumes which rendered him deservedly a great favourite." (The Hering family workshop was continued, though with less distinction, by Charles Jr. and his brothers James and Henry into the 1830s.) This is a facsimile of the 1496 printing by Wynkyn de Worde of the first modern edition of the classic work on hunting, hawking, fishing, and heraldry. Although generally stated as published 1810, it was actually published 1811. A stunning and very important book with some very nice ownership provenance.
The introduction is dated 1811. This is a facsimile 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."
The facsimile itself (final unpaginated section) has preliminary half-title leaf reading "The book, containing the treatises of hawking, hunting, &c. &c." followed by a repeat of the main title-page
Many pages printed in red and black.
Colophon at foot of verso of final leaf reads: Harding and Wright, printers, St. John's Square, London".
Covers are a bit rubbed, inside, front hinge cracked, some small insect damage to the hinge, text block is very nicely age toned, some original offsetting from the 1496 edition. 11.25" x 8".
All in all a very nice copy and now 207 years old in its own right. An incredibly rare book, 1 of only 150 copies printed, I can only see one other copy for sale worldwide, (that copy is priced at nearly $10, 000). A beautiful thing.
.
RACKHAM-MAN. (WINDYRIDGE BOOKS) HAS BEEN SELLING BOOKS ON EBAY FOR OVER 12 YEARS. SELLING ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, INCLUDING ARTHUR RACKHAM. EDMUND DULAC. KAY NIELSEN. JESSIE M KING. WALTER CRANE. LOUIS WAIN. HARRY CLARKE. AUBREY BEARDSLEY. ERIC GILL. EDWARD BAWDEN. ERIC RAVILIOUS. PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS FROM THE GOLDEN COCKEREL. ST DOMINIC'S PRESS. ETC ETC.
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