Douglas Craven Phillotts Copy Boke Of Saint Albans BY DAME JULIANA BERNERS CONTAINING TREATISES ON HAWKING...

(LINGUISTICS) Douglas Craven Phillott’s copy with his bookplate, dated inscription, and numerous and sometimes extensive marginal annotations in neat red ink.

Boke of Saint Albans BY DAME JULIANA BERNERS
CONTAINING TREATISES ON HAWKING, HUNTING, AND COTE ARMOUR:
PRINTED AT SAINT ALBANS BY THE SCHOOLMASTER-PRINTER IN 1486
REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE
With an Introduction by WILLIAM BLADES AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE AND TYPOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CAXTON"
LONDON ELLIOT STOCK, 62 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1881

Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Craven Phillott (28 June 1860 - 11 September 1930) was a British army officer who served in India and later as Consul in Persia. A scholar of Urdu. Douglas Craven Phillott's extensively annotated copy of the 1881 facsimile edition of the "Boke of Saint Albans" (1486) represents a unique and significant work of scholarship in its own right. Phillott, a noted linguistics scholar, has added his comprehensive analysis, critiques, and insights on the historic text, engaging with challenging middle English terminology nearly throughout-- at times quite extensively. The depth, rigor, and specialized expertise evident in Phillott's annotations elevate this particular copy to a one-of-a-kind artifact capturing both the original 15th century work and the scholarly perspective of a 19th century linguist encountering it. As such, Phillott's annotated copy stands as an original and noteworthy contribution to the study of this early English treatise on hawking, hunting, and heraldry. An argument can be made that carefully analyzing this Middle English work helped hone the language skills and analytical approach Phillott would later apply to his Urdu studies. Poring over the archaic terminology and language of hawking and hunting may have primed him to tackle a very different language with its own unique vocabulary and expression. That he published an essay on "Hawking Gloves" twenty years later suggests the subject remained of interest. ("Indian hawking gloves." By Douglas Craven Phillott; Journal and Proceedings of Asiatic Society of Bengal NS v iii pp 603-8 Calcutta, 1907-- found in Notes & Queries, SEPT 26, 1925, p. 230/google books.)