Shelfmark
Gk.6.03
Author
Uniform title
[Boke of Saint Albans]
Title
The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans: containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M..
Varying form of title
Booke of S. Albans
Varying form of title
Boke of Saint Albans
Varying form of title
Treatise of hunting
Varying form of title
Booke of armorie
Varying form of title
Book of Saint Albans
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard., 1595..
Physical description
[4], 95, [1] leaves : coats of arms ; 18 cm. (4to)
Language
Text in English with quotations and examples in Latin.
Note
Attributed to Juliana Berners.
Note
G.M. = Gervase Markham.
Note
Revised from the first edition, 1486.
Note
Signatures: A-G⁴ I-Y⁴ (L4 blank) 2A-2D⁴ (2D4 blank).
Note
The first leaf is blank except for large signature-mark "A".
Note
"A treatise of hunting" and "The booke of armorie" each have separate dated title page with imprint "London printed by Valentine Sims for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard. 1595" on leaves I1r and M1r respectively; foliation and register are continuous.
Note
Some copies have the illustration on leaf 57r cancelled.
Note
Ornaments on all title pages, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 3314
Citation/references note
ESTC, S103621
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
16th-century ms. notes on title page with signature "Valentine Pettit".
Binding
20th-century quarter-bound calfskin and marbled paper by Charles McLeish, dated June 1954. Covers undecorated. Spine with two raised bands, decorated with gilt titling ("Berners' Gentleman's academy -- 1595"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of modern laid paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: starts with leaf 29, i.e. the title oage of "A treatise of hunting". It also lacks leaves 62, 63.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: Many leaves in "The gentlemans academie" are misnumbered.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.5.15.
Subject
Falconry Early works to 1800.
Subject
Hunting Early works to 1800.
Subject
Heraldry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Markham, Gervase, 1568? - 1637 editor.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Lownes, Humphrey, ? - -1629 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
C. & C. McLeish binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B51366