which asserts that "This Book has pass'd several Editions." The Places round London for Angling, noticed in this Work, are worth Attention.

There is another Edition of the same size, title, and date, with a different wood Cut at the beginning, and with material variations.]

"The Compleat Fisherman. Being a large

and particular Account of all the several ways of Fishing, now practised in Europe, by James Saunders, Esq. of Newton Awbery, upon Trent." 12mo. Lond. 1724. "The Genteel Recreation: or the Pleasure of Angling, a Poem. With a Dialogue between Piscator and Corydon. By John Whitney, a Lover of the Angle." 8vo. Lond. 1700.

"The School of Recreation: or a Guide to the most Ingenious Exercises, by R. H." p. 158 to 182 [" On Fishing."] 8vo. Lond. 1701.

[p. 144 to 166 on “ Fishing.”]

8vo. Lond. 1710.

"The Secrets of Angling, by C. G.” 12mo. Lond. 1705.

"Dictionarium Rusticum et Urbanicum."

8vo. Lond. 1704.

2d Edit.

3d Edit. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1726.

"The Angler's Sure Guide: or Angling improved and methodically digested, by R. H. Esq." 8vo. Lond. 1706.

"The Innocent Epicure; or the Art of Angling, a Poem." 8vo. Lond. 1697.

[The Preface is by N. Tate, who is supposed to have been the Author of the Book.]

[This appears to be the same Poem with the foregoing; and is likewise called the second Edition, in the Title.] "The Whole Art of Fishing: being a Collection and Improvement of all that has been written on this Subject: with many new Experiments." 12mo. Lond. 1714.

2d Edit. entitled "The Gentleman Fisher or the Whole Art of Angling." 8vo. Lond. 1727.

“A Discourse of Fish and Fish Ponds: by a Person of Honour." 8vo. Lond.

8vo. Lond. 1715.

This Work is also found as an Appendage to " The Gentleman Farmer." Svo. Lond. 1726.

[The Author was the Hon. Roger North.]

"The Country Gentleman's Vade Mecum," by G. Jacob, Gent. 8vo. Lond. 1717, contains p. 25-31. a few pages upon Fish, Angling, Fish-Ponds, &c.

"The Compleat Sportsman," by Giles Jacob. 12mo. Lond. 1718. Part III. of which relates to "Fish and Fishing."

"England's Interest; or the Gentleman and Farmer's Friend: by Sir J. Moore." 8vo. Lond. 1721. Contains (p. 99 to 157) "The Angler's Guide."

"The Gentleman Angler." 8vo. Lond. 1726. . . . 2d Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1736.

3d Edit. 8vo. Lond. without date.

This Work was again printed as a novel publication in 1786, viz. "The Gentleman Angler. Containing brief and plain Instructions by which the young beginner may in a short time become a perfect Artist in Angling for all kinds of Fish. By a Gentleman, who has made it his Diversion upwards of fourteen years." 12mo. Lond. 1786.

"Piscatory Eclogues." 8vo. Lond. 1729.

Sports, in Nine Piscatory Eclogues.” 8vo. Lond. 1773.

"Piscatio. Or Angling. A Poem. Written originally in Latin by S. Ford, D. D. and inscribed to Archbishop Sheldon. Translated from the Musæ Anglicanæ, by Tipping Sylvester, M. A. Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxon."

Lucet, eamus

Quo ducit Gula, piscemur.

8vo. Oxford. 1733.

Hor. Epist. 4. Lib. 1.

[The Original is in the Musa Anglicanæ, Vol. I. or rather "Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta : sive, Poemata quædam melioris notæ, seu hactenus Inedita, seu sparsim Edita, in unum Volumen congesta." 8vo. Oxon. 1692, p. 129. "Piscatio ad Gilb. Archiepisc. Cant." signed, Simon Ford, S. T. P."]

66

Sportsman's Dictionary; or the Gentleman's Companion in all Rural Recreations." 2 vols. 8vo. 1735.

"The British Angler; or a Pocket-Companion for Gentleman Fishers, by John Williamson, Gent. 8vo. Lond.

Fishing and Hunting." 8vo. Lond.

"The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea Fishing;

with a Natural History of River, Pond,

and Sea Fish, by R. Brookes." 8vo. Lond.

1740.

2d Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1743.

3d Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1770.

4th Edit. Svo. Lond. 1774.

5th Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1781.

6th Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1785.

7th Edit. 8vo. Lond. 1789.

66 a new Edit." 8vo. Lond. 1798. "a new Edit." 8vo. Lond. 1801.

"a new Edit." 8vo. Lond. 1807.

[In Ford of Manchester's Catalogue of Books for 1811, an Edition printed at Dublin, in 1788, is mentioned.] "The Art of Angling, by R. Brookes, M. D. now improved with Additions, and formed into a Dictionary." Svo. Lond. 1766.

Angling, a Poem." 12mo. Lond. 1741, 2d Edit.

"The Art of Angling improved, in all its parts, especially Fly-fishing, by Richard Bowlker." 12mo. Worcester.

[Certainly published before 1759.]

3d Edit. 8vo. Birmingham.

[Printed with Baskerville's Types.]