Illustrations in the " Treaty 'se" 1 5 



THE "TREATYSE" FROM AN ANGLER'S 

 POINT OF VIEW. 



It is nearly four hundred years since 

 this charming little Treatyse was first pub 

 lished, and it has often been more or less 

 gently ridiculed by writers who have 

 judged it by the " rudeness " of the illus- 

 trations or the " quaintness of its ortho- 

 graphy," rather than by the value of its 

 descriptions of rods, tackle, baits, and how 

 and when to use them. 



The author's reputation as an instructor 

 in the art of angling would have been 

 much higher than it has generally been 

 rated if the illustrations had been omitted. 

 They have been reproduced over and over 

 again in works on angling, merely for the 

 purpose of showing what a vast difference 

 there is between our modern tackle and 

 that apparently in use at the time of this 

 writer \ but it is possible that Wynkyn de 

 Worde, thinking to increase the value of 

 the work he was reprinting, added the 

 illustrations certainly there is nothing in 

 the text to give one the idea that such 

 coarse hooks, lines, leads, etc., were used. 



The Rod. 



The instructions given, if followed out 

 at the present day, would produce a well- 



