Five years ago the present editors published in a large folio volume the first edition of the "Master of Game" in a limited and expensive form. It contained side by side with the ancient text a modernised version, extended biographical accounts of Edward of York and of Gaston de Foix (both personalities of singular historical and human interest), a detailed bibliography of the existing mediæval hunting literature up to the end of the sixteenth century, a glossary, and a very much longer appendix than it was possible to insert in the present volume, which, in order to make it conform to the series of which it forms part, had to be cut down to about one-sixth of the first edition. A similar fate had to befall the illustrations, which had to be reduced materially both in number and size. We would therefore invite the reader whose interest in the subject may possibly be aroused by the present pages, to glance at the perhaps formidable-looking pages of the first edition, with its facsimile photogravure reproductions of the best French and English illuminations to be found in fifteenth century hunting literature. In conclusion, I desire to repeat also in this place the expression of my thanks to the authorities of the British Museum--to Dr. G. F. Warner and Mr. I. H. Jeayes in particular--to the heads of the Bodleian Library, the _Bibliothèque Nationale_, the Mazarin and the Arsenal Libraries in Paris, the Duc d'Aumale's Library at Chantilly, the _Bibliothèque Royale_ at Brussels, the _Königliche Bibliotheken_ in Munich and Dresden, the _Kaiserliche und Königliche Haus, Hof and Staats Archiv_, and the _K. and K. Hof Bibliothek_ in Vienna, to Dr. F. J. Furnivall, Mr. J. E. Harting, Mr. T. Fitzroy Fenwick of Cheltenham, and to express my indebtedness to the late Sir Henry Dryden, Bt., of Canons Ashby, for his kind assistance in my research work.