Sporting.- Berners (Dame Juliana) [The Book of St Albans]: The Book containing the Treatises of Hawking; Hunting; Coat-Armour; Fishing; and Blasing of Arms, facsimile of the Wynkyn de Worde edition of 1496, [one of 150 copies], printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, lightly browned, William Baillie Grohman's copy with his signed ink inscription "...bought this copy at the Gilbey sale 21. June 1915" on front free endpaper, bookplates of Walter Harold Wilkin and James Stevens Cox, worming to hinges, contemporary russia with borders in blind, by C.Hering with his ticket, g.e., a little rubbed and damp-stained, rebacked and recornered in morocco, [W & S p. 28; Schwerdt I p. 63], small folio, 1810. ⁂ Facsimile of the first English work to include the earliest printed illustration of a fisherman and passages of veterinary interest, the earliest book printed in English relating to falconry, and the first work in England to use colour printing. William Baillie Grohman (1851-1921), Anglo-Austrian author on hunting and big game hunter. He assembled a large library on hunting and a vast collection of sporting art.
Sporting.- Berners (Dame Juliana) [The Book of St Albans]: The Book containing the Treatises of Hawking; Hunting; Coat-Armour; Fishing; and Blasing of Arms, facsimile of the Wynkyn de Worde edition of 1496, [one of 150 copies], printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, lightly browned, William Baillie Grohman's copy with his signed ink inscription "...bought this copy at the Gilbey sale 21. June 1915" on front free endpaper, bookplates of Walter Harold Wilkin and James Stevens Cox, worming to hinges, contemporary russia with borders in blind, by C.Hering with his ticket, g.e., a little rubbed and damp-stained, rebacked and recornered in morocco, [W & S p. 28; Schwerdt I p. 63], small folio, 1810. ⁂ Facsimile of the first English work to include the earliest printed illustration of a fisherman and passages of veterinary interest, the earliest book printed in English relating to falconry, and the first work in England to use colour printing. William Baillie Grohman (1851-1921), Anglo-Austrian author on hunting and big game hunter. He assembled a large library on hunting and a vast collection of sporting art.
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