MASTER OF GAME
The Oldest English Book on Hunting
By EDWARD, DUKE OF YORK
edited by
W. A. and F. BAILLIE-GROHMAN
with a forward by
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
With 44 Facsimile Photogravure Plates (4 with original text) and Frontispiece reproduced in Colours and Gold, from the Miniatures in the famous MS. f. fr. 616 in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Monotint reproductions of the drawings in the Bodleian "Master of Game" (MS. Bodl. 546), and other reproductions, transcripts of hitherto unpublished MSS. and Documents, Literary and Historical Notes, a Bibliography of MSS. and Printed Books on Hunting in the principal Languages of Europe up to the end of the sixteenth century, and a Glossary of Ancient English Hunting Terms, with Index.
Only 600 COPIES (bound with these plates in "Rough Deerskin") will be sold, of which half are reserved for England, the rest for America and the Continent. Each copy is numbered and signed, and under no circumstances will any more be published. Price £6. The first ten copies are printed on Japanese Hand-made Vellum paper throughout and Bound by Zaehnsdorf in White Vellum, price £30 each.
Only 2 copies of the latter and 20 copies of the English Edition are left.