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Pp. xvi, 152; 79 color photographs and color paintings, some line-drawings. Publisher's original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, sm 4to. This 95,000-word encyclopedia contains some 1500 terms and idioms related to or connected with falconry, with explanations, derivations and notes. This well-illustrated work brings together the in-house names for hawks, tools, methods and concepts employed in falconry. The result is a unique, often oblique look at the falconer's art over the past 500 years (modified from the front jacket flap blurb). No ownership marks and no signs of use.