HIS MAJESTY THE KING and H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES have been pleased to subscribe for copies.
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Extracts from Reviews in the English and American Press
The Times.—"'The Oldest English Book on Hunting' renews its youth in a superb and massive volume, elaborately illustrated with reproductions of the quaintest of mediæval drawings. The archaic text of the original English is happily modernised in parallel columns, so that the book is pleasant and easy reading. The elaborate appendix is a treasury of research ... and the bibliographical catalogue is exhaustive."
The Fortnightly Review.—"A great classic has been rescued from oblivion."
The Spectator.—"There can be no hesitation in ascribing to the magnificently produced volume the first place in the classics of hunting of an earlier date ever given to the public of our day. Some of the attractions of this splendid volume ... the illustrations which are as interesting as the text ... absolutely a masterpiece ... the endurance of a scholarly and rational enthusiasm in the history and pursuit of sport has its monument in the fine work now presented."
The Field.—"In many respects this is a remarkable book. It is the oldest treatise on hunting in the English language. It was written just five centuries ago, and, strange to say, until the present time it has never been printed. As the treatise is from many points of view of considerable importance, one would have supposed that long ere this some enthusiastic scholar with a love for the chase would have been found both able and willing to undertake its publication. On the other hand, we have only to look at the text as now presented to us to see that its preparation implies an enormous amount of labour, involving a collation of the various MSS., a verbatim et literatim transcription of the text, a modern English translation in parallel columns, critical and explanatory notes, and a glossary of ancient hunting terms; in a word, a thorough mastery of the subject. All this Mr. and Mrs. Baillie-Grohman have accomplished, and indeed much more, for they have given an account of the existing MSS. of the work, a bibliography of the mediæval literature of the chase. It was a happy thought to illustrate the English text with facsimiles of the beautiful miniatures which adorn the French original.... In the way of reproduction nothing could be better ... the tout ensemble is a model of good taste and fine printing."
Baily's Magazine.—"This beautiful book ... in such sumptuous form ... bears evidence of wide research and of care in preparation. The sumptuous production it is and the illuminations from old MSS. have been reproduced as well as it was possible to reproduce them."
Land and Water.—"This is really an extremely interesting book, and if Mr. Baillie-Grohman is as painstaking and accurate with his rifle as he is with his pen, it is small wonder that he is in the front rank of contemporary sportsmen."