Abstract
One of the very few instances of a book printed in the fifteenth century that was marked up to serve as exemplar for a new edition is a copy of The book of hawking, hunting and blasing of arms, or The book of hawking for short, printed c. 1486 at the Abbey of St Albans and therefore best known as The book of St Albans. The St Albans edition is a compilation of texts which were of interest to landed gentry: treatises on hawking and on hunting, on coats of arms and their correct colouring, and between them are shorter texts, a few poems, and lists with useful information. The scattered evidence of a friendly connection between both distinct printing enterprises at St Albans and Caxton provides a background to Wynkyn de Worde's reprinting of the two English books a few years after he had taken over Caxton's business.Keywords: Caxton; The book of hawking; The book of St Albans; Wynkyn de Worde
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