ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS OF THE FIRST EDITION OF

THE

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 Bodl. 546), and other reproductions, transcripts of hitherto unpublished MSS.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.

HIS MAJESTY THE KING and H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES have been pleased to subscribe for copies.

Published for the Editors by BALLANTYNE & CO., 14 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C., London, who will forward a Specimen Plate and full particulars on application.