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TA CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON ANGLING.

To the Lovers of the Amusement of ANGLING, the following Account of the various Publications upon the Subject, may not be unwelcome. Many of these, from the Circumstance of the Editions being originally few in Number, or from other accidental Causes, now sell at large Prices.

IN the second Edition of the Treatises of Hawking and Hunting, ascribed to Juliana Barnes,

"Here begynnyth the Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle." Fol. Lond. Wynk. de Worde. 1496.

4to. Wynk. de Worde.

4to. Lond. W. Copland.

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4to. Lond. Ioh. Waley.

4to. Lond. Wyllyam Powell.

4to. Lond. Wyllyam Powell. 1550.

4to. Lond. Abr. Veale and W. Copland.

fol. Lond. 1810, reprinted in fac simile from the Edit. of 1496.

[Juliana Berners, Barnes, or Bernes, the religious Sportswoman, to whom the above tract is ascribed, is said to have been of a noble family, sister to Richard Lord Berners of Essex, and Prioress of Sopwell, near St. Albans. She flourished, according to Bale

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and Pitts, about the year 1460; and is celebrated by Leland, Holinshed, and other writers for her uncommon learning and accomplishments.

Beside being the first printed Treatise on the subject in the English language, this work affords us rude representations of the different kinds of Tackle in use: and contains directions and remarks, which have been copied even in some of the most recent Treatises on Angling.

Of the quarto edition, printed by Copland, Herbert mentions two other copies: one, printed "in Lothbury, over against St. Margarets Church;" the other, " in Seint Martyns parish in the Vinetre, upon the three Crane Wharfe."]

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Hawking, Hunting, Fouling, and Fishing, with the true Measures of Blowing, &c. now newly collected by W. G. faukener." 4to. Lond. 1596.

[W. G. is William Gryndall.]

Hawking, Hunting, and Fishing, with the true Measures of Blowing. Newly corrected and amanded, 1596." 4to. Lond. Edw. Alde. 1596.

“A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line, and of all other Instruments thereunto belonginge, made by L. M." 4to. Lond. 1590.

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[This Treatise contains a few improvements on the directions of Juliana Barnes. It has wood-cuts of the Pike and Proche hooks, &c. with some remarks on the preservation of Fish in pools. L. M. is Leonard Mascall.]

"A New Booke of good Husbandry, very pleasaunt, and of great

profite both for Gentlemen and Yomen: conteining the Order and Maner of making of Fish-pondes, with the breeding, preseruing and multiplyinge of the Carpe, Tench, Pike, and Troute, and diuerse kindes of other Fresh-Fish. Written in Latine by Janus Dubrauius, and translated into English at the speciall request of George Churchey, fellow of Lions Inne, the 9 Februarie 1599." 4to. Lond. 1599.

"Certain Experiments concerning Fish and Fruit practised by Iohn Taverner, Gentleman, and by him published for the benefit of others." 4to. London, (printed for Wm. Ponsonby) 1600.

[On the family of John Taverner, see Masters's Hist. of C. C. C. Cambridge.] "The Secrets of Angling: teaching the choicest Tooles, Baytes, and Seasons for the taking of any Fish, in Pond or River: practised and familiarly opened in three Bookes. By I. D. Esquire." Svo. Lond. 1613.

8vo. Lond. 1652.

[In the centre of the Title of the first Edition of this work is a wood-cut, representing two Men. One with a Sphere at the end of his line, and on a Label,

"Hold hooke and line
Then all is mine."

The other with a Fish,

"Well fayre the pleasure

That brings such treasure.”

Some large extracts from the second Edition, which is much enlarged, were published in the last volume of the " Censura Literaria."

The original Author of the work is mentioned in the third Edition of Walton's Angler, under the name of Jo. Davors. But the following entry in the books at Stationers' Hall, probably affords the most accurate information.

1612, Feb. 28. "Mr. Rog. Iackson entred for his copie under thands of Mr. Mason and Mr. Warden Hooper a Booke called the Secrete of Angling, teaching the choysest tooles, bates, & seasons for the taking of any fish in pond or river, pracktised and opened in three Bookes, by JOHN DENNYS, Esquire. vjd." Lib. C. pa. 236 b.

The second Edition, is said in the title, to be "augmented with many approved experiments, by W. Lauson."]

"The Pleasures of Princes, or Good Mens Recreations: containing a Discourse of the general Art of Fishing with the Angle, or otherwise: and of all the hidden Secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the Choyce, Ordering, Breeding, and Dyetting of the fighting

Cocke, being a worke never in that nature handled by any former Author." 4to. Lond. 1614.

. 4to. Lond, 1635.

[This work forms a part of the "second Booke of the English Husbandman, by G. M. (Gervase Markham.)]

"A Briefe Treatise of Fishing: with the Art of Angling." 4to. Lond. 1614.

[This forms a part of the "Jewell for Gentrie, by T. S. ;" and is, in fact, but a reprint of the work ascribed to Juliana Barnes.]

In "Cheap and Good Husbandry," by Gervase Markham, 4to. Lond. 1616, we have a short Chapter "On Fish and Fish Ponds."

Among the additions by Gervase Markham to "Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme, compyled in the French tongue by Charles Stevens, and Iohn Liebault, and translated into English by Richard Surflet," fol. Lond. 1616. Book IV. chap. xi-xvii. relate to "The Poole, Fish-pond, and Ditch for Fish."

"Countrey Contentments: or the Husbandman's Recreations by G. M."

5th Edit. 4to. Lond. 1633.
6th Edit. 4to. Lond. 1639.

[From p. 59 to 102, in the fifth and sixth Editions, we have "The whole Art of Angling; as it was written in a small treatise in Rime, and now for the better understanding of the Reader put into Prose, and adorned and enlarged." The Edition of the "Country Contentments," of 1615, does not contain the Treatise on Angling. The Rimes from which the Art of Angling, in this book, was taken, were probably those in the "Secrets of Angling, by I. D." 1613.

The "Country Gentleman's Companion," 2 vol. 12mo. Lond. 1753, said in the Title to be, " by a Country Gentleman, from his

own experience," and "printed for the Author," is nothing more than a reprint of Markham's work, without dedication, preface, or acknowledgment of the Author's name. The Treatise on Angling, with the same verbatim Title, occurs vol. ii. p. 61-106.

"The Art of Angling. Wherein are discovered many rare Secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight in that Recreation, written by Thomas Barker, an antient Practitioner in the said Art." 12mo. Lond. 1651.

... 4to. Lond. 1653, without the Author's name subjoined to the "Countryman's Recreations." 4to. Lond. 1654. 2d Edit. [so called,] 12mo, Lond. 1657: with Com. mendatory Verses prefixed. This is the first Edition that has the title of "Barker's Delight."

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2d Edit. [likewise so called,] 12mo. Lond. 1659. It has, in fact, only a new Title-page.

[In an epistle to the reader, prefixed to the first Edition, and in the Dedication of the two last to Edward Lord Montague, Barker speaks of himself as having practised Angling for more than half a century. He also says he was born and educated" at Bracemeale, in the liberty of Salop; being a freeman and burgesse of the same City :" adding, "if any noble or gentle Angler, of what degree soever he be, have a mind to discourse of any of these wayes and experiments, I live in Henry the 7ths Gifts, the next doore to the Gatehouse in Westm. my name is Barker, where I shall be ready, as long as please God, to satisfie them, and maintain my Art, during life, which is not like to be long."

"The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.

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"Simon Peter said, I go a fishing: and they said, we also will go with thee." John 21. 3. 12mo. Lond. 1653. [By Isaac Walton.]

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