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To Professor Fredson Bowers my grateful appreciation of his assistance.

Edward Hodnett, English Woodcuts 1480-1535 (1935), p. 77.

E. Gordon Duff, The Printers, Stationers, etc. (1906), p. 29 and his Fifteenth Century English Books (1917), no. 57.

H. R. Plomer, Wynkyn de Worde and his Contemporaries (1925), p. 56 and Duff, Printers, p. 29.

The text of the fragment is found in the Treatise on Hunting. Leaf E1 covers d4 recto line 30: "his man now here folowynge ye may here" to d5 recto, line 21: "Than behynde that is the skyll thore". The other two Bodleian leaves are continuous and cover from e3 verso, line 14: "An herte of hartes" to e5 verso, line 3: "But now is the worlde wexte so vnkynde".

STC 3317 with supplied date [1515]. William Blades. The Boke of Saint Albans (1881), p. 22 dates it [149-], second in his list of editions.

Frank Isaac, English & Scottish Printing Types (1930).

The Bodleian fragment discloses the use of s2, s3, v3, w2 small, w3 and y2. The letter s1 is absent; it was used until 1509. y1 cannot be found, except in a fragment dated 1512; it is not found again in a dated book before 1520. w1 is also absent; it is found in 1506 but drops out until 1517. w2 large is here used only as a capital letter and not in the middle and at the ends of words, which usage dropped out in 1511.

Hunting, Hawking, Shooting illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, etc. (1928), I, 61, and IV, 104, with reproductions of title-page and colophon. Originally in the library of the Tollemache family, Helmingham Hall, Suffolk. Acquired privately from this collection by George Daniel and in his sale, 20 July 1864, it appeared as lot 788 and undated; sold to Lilly for A. H. Huth.

Thomas F. Dibdin, Typographical Antiquities (1812), II, no. 98 cites Nicholas Upton's De re heraldica, a folio in English "reprinted from the St. Albans edition . . . of Wynkyn de Worde, 1496." Because of its separate signatures The blasynge of armes, the last heraldic tract in the folio and with the printer's device, could easily have been bound separately.

Not in the Short Title Catalogue; Hazlitt, Handbook (1867), p. 28(c) with date [circa 1500]. Blades, op. cit., p. 22 dates it [149-]. Thomas Westwood and Thomas Satchell, Bibliotheca Piscatoria (1883), p. 25 catalogued this edition when it was in the Huth collection and assigned [circa 1503] which was copied in Duff Handlists (1895), I, 6 and also listed on p. 21 among De Worde's "Undated Books." The Huth sale catalogue 20 Nov., 1911, lot 607 accepted [c. 1503]. In the Schwerdt sale 22 May 1939 it was lot 182 and undated.

Letter 27 March 1937 addressed to the writer.

Isaac, op. cit., page facing fig. 1

R. B. McKerrow, Printers' & Publishers' Devices (1913).

Reproduced in the Schwerdt Catalogue, I, plate 29. Unnoticed by Hodnett in his English Woodcuts.

The infrequent use of s2, approximately, only half as many times as s3 by 1521 s2 becomes rare and s3, although introduced in 1514, by 1519 is in general use; the almost exclusive use of w2 (small) as against w3.

Two unique Morgan items: Hawes, Passe tyme of pleasure, published 3 Dec. 1517, and Olyuer of Castyle dated 1518.

Westwood and Satchell, op. cit., pp. 25-28.

Ibid., p. 28.

There is no De Worde printing of a "little quarto pamphlet" on hunting in Corpus Christi, Oxford, as stated by F. Madan in Collected papers of Henry Bradshaw (1889), p. 432, no. 18. This copy is STC 21520.

Cambridge University Library, Early English Printed Books [compiled by C. E. Sayle] (1900), I, no. 211; lacks A1 and A4.

From Morgan 732 which is the copy of the folio quoted throughout.

STC 13527 + with date [1500 or after] in their Supplement to the Short Title Catalogue, p. 129; the Britwell copy probably from the Harleian (Cat. 1744, IV, 10583, n.d.) and Fitzwilliam collections see Duff no. 353. It appeared in the Christie-Miller sale April 1, 1925, lot 400 without date. Lacks all after B6.

The sole use of s2, which was the regular s in 1503 and w2 used in 1501, 1502, and 1506.

Grateful acknowledgement is due Mr. Herman Mead of the Huntington Library and Mr. J. C. T. Oates of the University Library, Cambridge, for checking the dated publications 1501-1504 in their libraries.

The title and chapter-headings are Isaac's 112 textura, his fig. 4, employed from 1501 to 1532; the device, now missing but seen by Ames and discussed by Duff under his no. 353 is McKerrow no. 2 used between 1500 and 1502; the state of the Crucifixion woodcut on the verso of the title-page, the diagonal crack the entire length of the block, Duff (Printers, Stationers . . . of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535 [1906], p. 27) places towards the end of 1500 and Hodnett (woodcut no. 374) would date [1502?].

Joseph Ames. Typographical Antiquities . . . considerably augmented by William Herbert (1785), I, 203. Dibdin II, no. 398 says Herbert would have given more particulars had he seen a copy.

STC 3188 with date [1535?], the unique copy British Museum C.38.a.8.

Only A-C4 and D1 which is defective. Not in STC. Sinker no. 824 with date c. 1510-20 but no printer. Mr. F. S. Ferguson most kindly established the printer William Copland and date "should be probably 1565 or a little later, say 1567," in his letter 17 April 1951 addressed to the writer.

Madan, op. cit., no. 18 (p. 432) mentions "the little quarto pamphlet issues of 'Hawking' and 'Hunting' issued by W. de Worde about this time," i.e. in John Dorne's Day-Book, 1520. Dorne's odd spelling could also refer to a copy of the whole book.