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the second of Hunting, and the third of 

 Coat-Armour. Ten years later, in 1496, 

 Wynkyn de Worde issued a second edition 

 of The Book of St. Albans, adding a fourth 

 part, The Treaty se of Fysshynge. 



Sir John Hawkins, in his " Life of 

 Mr. Isaac Walton," prefixed to his fourth 

 edition of The Compleat Angler (1784), 

 thus refers to The Book of St. Albans : 



"This tract, intitled The Treaty se of 

 Fysshynge wyth an Angle, makes part of a 

 book, like many others of that early time, 

 without a title; but which, by the colophon, 

 appears to have been printed at West- 

 minster, by Wynkyn de Worde, 1496, in a 

 small folio, containing a treatise on hawk- 

 ing, another on hunting, in verse; the latter 

 taken, as it seems, from a tract on that 

 subject, written by old Sir Tristram, an 

 ancient forester, cited in the forest laws of 

 Mamvood, chap, iiii., in sundry places ; a 

 book wherein is determined the Lygnage 

 of Cote Armures, the above-mentioned 

 treatise of fishing, and the method of 

 Blasynge of Armes. 



" The book printed by Wynkyn de 

 Worde is, in truth, a republication of one 

 known to the curious by. the name of The 

 Book of St. Albans, it appearing by the col- 

 ophon to have been printed there in 1486, 

 .and as it seems with Caxton's letter (vide 



