CHAPTER IV. 



Michael Angelo an Angler La Canna de Piscare 

 Blakey and the Bibliotheca Piscatoria 

 Mynheer Vandunk. 



jN 1596 * a black-letter reproduc- 

 tion of The Book of St. Albans, 

 with considerable variations, was 

 published, entitled " Hawking, 

 Hunting, Fowling, and Fishing, with the 

 true measures of blowing, etc., by William 

 Gryndall, now newly collected by W. G. 

 Faulkner." 



In 1600 appeared another black-letter 

 quarto, entitled " Certaine Experiments 

 Concerning Fish and Fruite : practised by 

 John Taverner, Gentleman, and by him 

 published for the benefit of others. Lon- 

 don, printed for William Ponsonby, 

 1600." 



Before coming to " The Secrets of Ang- 



* My late friend the Rev. J. J. Manley, M.A., 

 gives the date of publication as 1593 in his plea- 

 sant book Notes on Fish and Fishing (S. Low & 

 Co., 1877). 



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