[FERRIÈRES (Henry de)] Le Livre du Roy Modus... - Lot 10 - Briscadieu

[FERRIÈRES (Henry de)] Le Livre du Roy Modus et de la Royne Racio. Preface by Elzéar Blaze. Paris, Blaze, 1839. Large in-8; numerous vignettes in the text reproducing miniatures and ornate initials. Woodcut letters and vignettes after the 1525 edition. Edition printed on hollande with some pagination errors. Green morocco signed PETIT succ. de SIMIER, ribbed spine, gilt title and deer-head irons, cold-stamped fillets, double cold-stamped fillet framing the boards, deer-head irons in spandrels, double gilt-stamped fillet on the edges, interior lace, gilt edges. A fine copy. Reprint of the oldest printed French hunting treatise. Le livre du roy Modus [la bonne manière] et de la reine Ratio [la raison] was written between 1354 and 1377 by Henri de Ferrières, a Norman gentleman of whom little is known, except that he attended the hunts of King Charles VI at Breteuil, around 1325. The work, first printed in 1486 in Chambéry, enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages (Thiébaud 401). Provenances: Ex-libris with cipher to be identified and ex-libris printed from the library of Count G. de La Ferté-Senectère.