An American Edition of The Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle |  | Author: Juliana Berners
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ISBN: 1458807614
Dewey Decimal Number: 795
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Publication Date: July 31, 2009
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: liam Herbert. It does not extend further than the inftructions relating to the bait for trout; and the differences between it and the printed copies, which are very few and unimportant, are minutely given by that accurate and indefatigable reviewer of old Englifh literature, in his reprint of the Boke of St. Albans. It is not, however, merely as a literary curiofity that this Treatyfe is of intereft, for, independently of the information which it contains of the ftate of Angling at the period in which it was written, there are fome grounds for prefuming that it fuggefted to Walton the idea of his popular " Complete Angler," for the moft fu- perficial reader cannot fail to be ftruck with the general refemblance between them. The.Treatyfe of Fyffhynge wyth an Angle commences with fome obfervations whichare remarkable for their truth and fimplic- ity; and, after comparing the purfuits of Hunting, Hawking and Fowling with that of Angling, the preference is, of courfe, given to the latter. Then follow inftruc- tions for making tackle, rods, baits, etc., and a defcription of the moft fkilful manner of uf ing, together with an account of the various kinds of river fifh, and their refpective merits as food : and the treatife is concluded by fome admirable rules for the governance of the conduct of anglers towards each other, and towards thofe whofe lands they frequent, an obfervance of which, it is emphatically added, would fecure " the bleffynge of God and Saynt Petyre, whych he theym graunte that wyth his precious blood us boughte." Thus it is manifeft, that in the moft important features, Walton has clofely followed the Treatyfe ; and, although he has much enlarged upon it, and introduced his remarks in a dialogue, there is so great a fimilarity between them as to juftify the opi...
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