DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER FOR PLACING

THE PLATES.

PORTRAIT, to face the Title-page.

POINTERS and GAMEKEEPER*, to face

*The POINTERS belong to Mr. LARKIN, to whom the Compiler is extremely obliged, for the Loan of a very excellent Picture, by Mr. CHALMERS, from which the Plate was taken.

Angling.

¶A 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.

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 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 cor