CHAPTER VI. 



Gervase Markham's Art of Angling (1614) and 

 other Books His Work not merely a Prose 

 Version of The Secrets of Angling William 

 Lawson, a North-Country Angler and Writer 

 Barker's Delight Thomas Barker, a First- 

 rate Trout-Fisher Walton's Indebtedness 

 to Him The First Writer to Describe the 

 Use of the Reel or Winch and the Gaff 

 in Salmon-Fishing His Directions for Fly- 

 Making and Fly-Fishing. 



,NNYS' own work, as originally 

 printed in verse, is one of the 

 rarest books in the English lan- 

 guage ; but this did not detract 

 from its value as a text-book, inasmuch 

 as it was reprinted as a poem several 

 times, and, in part, in prose editions under 

 other titles, chiefly in connection with the 

 works of that interesting and prolific 

 writer and compiler Gervase Markham. 



The original poem was first published 

 in 1613, and it is curious to note that 

 what the editors of the Bibliotheca Pisca- 

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