The noble arte of venerie or hunting VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiutene sundrie chaces togither, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contentes vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.

The noble arte of venerie or hunting VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiutene sundrie chaces togither, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contentes vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Gascoigne, George, -1577
Imprint:[[London] : Imprinted by Henry Bynneman, for Christopher Barker, [1575]]
Description:[10], 202, [4], 205-248, [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts), music
Language:English
Series:Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 552:3.
Subject:
Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
Format: Microform E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4998424
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Booke of hunting.
Other uniform titles:Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?,
Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580. Vénerie.
Vénerie.
Notes:By George Gascoigne, whose name appears on ¹A3v.
An adaptation of: Fouilloux, Jacques du. La vénerie.
Partly in verse.
Printer's and publisher's names from colophon; publication date from STC.
Running title reads: The booke of hunting.
The pages between 202 and 205 are numbered 359, 358, 363, 362.
The last two leaves contain bugle calls.
Usually bound with an edition of "The booke of falconrie or hawking" by George Turberville, to whom this work is sometimes attributed.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
STC (2nd ed.) 24328.
Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
University of Chicago has also on microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1953. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 552:3).

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