1590. By John Wolfe “at the sygne of the Gunne.” 1595. By H. Lownes. “The Gentleman’s Academie or the Booke of St. Albans * * * Compiled by Juliana Barnes in the year from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method by G. M.” (Gervase Markham). London. 4to. (Brit. Mus.). 1596. By Wolffe. 1596. By Islip. “Hawking Hunting Fowling and Fishing,” by Adam Isllip. 4to. 1596. By E. Alde. “Hawking Hunting Fowling and Fishing,” by Edward Alde. 1600. By Wolffe. 1606. By Wolffe. 1614. By Helme. “A Jewell for Gentrie by S. T.” 4to. (Brit. Mus.). 1793. “The Book of Cote Armour.” London, 4to, reprinted by J. Dallaway, with an excellent introduction (Brit. Mus.). 1810. The Boke of Hawking Hunting and Cote Armour. Hazlewood’s reprint. London. 4to. (Brit. Mus.). How did the schoolmaster at St. Albans obtain his types? This is a puzzling question in the present state of palæotypography. Mr. Bradshaw of Cambridge has, by unwearied study of early printed books, thrown great light upon the connection and genealogy of numerous founts used by fifteenth-century printers, and systematic attention to the minute peculiarities of each printer is doubtless the only way in which those old books can be forced to yield up their secrets; but the task is immense, and beyond the powers of any one man to complete. Some day, however, when the palæotypography of this country, as well as of the Continental presses, shall have received that full technical and philosophical analysis which time is sure to bring, the more fortunate bibliographer of the future will be able with certainty to track the footsteps and operations of the early typefounders, and will be enabled to state for certain to what extent Caxton and the St. Albans printer were their own typefounders, and to what extent and to whom they looked for outside help. As the case now stands, we can only confess our ignorance of where the St. Albans types came from. [Illustration: Fleuron] CHAPTER III. =The Subjects Treated.= In the rude civilisation of the fifteenth century, a year’s experience of which would send most of us to our graves, the mental occupation as well as the bodily recreation of our ancestors was almost confined to hunting and hawking. “Fishing with an Angle” came in as a bad third, being too tame a pursuit for men who were no men if not men of war. Mimic war—war on the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air—war which could be pursued in times of peace, and which yet required knowledge, patience, fortitude, and courage—this had great attractions, and we cannot wonder at the general popularity of these pursuits.