THE 



British Angler: 



O R, A ^-^L' ^^- 



' ; I 



POCKET-CO MF^^l'b'N 



FOR 



GENTLEMEN-FISHERS. 



B E I N G A 



New and Methodical Treatife of the Art of Angling • 

 Comprehending all that is Curious and Ufeful in the 

 Knowledge of tliat Polite Diverfion. As : 



I. An lntrod«{iio7t 



--_ : J containing 



an Encomium on Rivers and 

 the Art of Angling, with ge- 

 neral Oblervations en the Na- 

 ture of Fifh. 

 11. The AnoUr''s jSpparatm : 

 Or, Direftions concerninc^ 



lain ; their Size, Shape, 

 Qualities, Seafons, Feeding, 

 Haunts, ^c. ^' 



IV. p.e 11 hie Prance ef ^n- 

 gting : Teaching the Choice 

 and Preparation of proper 

 Stands ; the Method of Tak- 

 ing every Species, more par- 

 ticularly the fportive TroHt, 

 the voracious Fike^ and ot^er 

 Capital Game. With De- 

 fcriptions of our principal Ri- 

 vers, Oblervations relating to 

 the Weather, and other ne- 

 cefiary Remarks. 



Together vith 

 Supplemental Discourses, i. On Fifh-ponds andRefer^ 

 vatories. 2 On the Laws againll Poachers, and in 

 tavour of the Fair xAngler. 



ALSO, 



Excellent R e c e i p t f. for DrefTing of Fiili, and a 

 Complete Index, in which the Terms in Ufe amone 

 Angxers are occafionally explained. 



^Embelliilied with Copper Plates Cur;oufy F.rgraved 



J^ods^ Lines^ Hooks, Fleaa, 

 and the reft of the Tackle : 

 Aifo, of Xaits, Natural and 

 Artiikial, 

 III. An exa<!i Dejcription of the 

 fcveral Kinds oi Fifh th^t are 

 found in the Aivers^ and on 

 the Sea-Coajis of Great "Bri- 



The Whole Compiled from approved Authors, and 



above Thirty Years Experience, 

 l^yJOHN WILLIJ MSO N. Gent. 



Who has added a Verfiiication of the principal Heads, at 

 the End of each Cha pter, for the Help of Memory.' 



L O N D O N: 

 Printed for J.Hodges, &t the LooAing-G /a fi on LoK^/on- 

 Bridge, Mdccxl. 



