This vintage book constitutes one volume of a detailed and useful guide to falconry, and includes information on the care and management of falcons and related birds. This fascinating and extensively illustrated text will be of considerable utility to modern hawking enthusiasts, and would make for a wonderful addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this book - General Management - Mews - Blocks - Perches - Bow Perch - Bathing - Condition - Feeding - Casting - Imping - Mounting - Various Diseases'
Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book. It now comes in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on falconry.
The Honourable Gerald William Lascelles CB (26 October 1849 – 11 February 1928) was a British author and Deputy Surveyor of the New Forest from 1880 to 1914, and writer of an important book on the area, Thirty Five Years in the New Forest.