84 " The A rt of A ngling? 



by Gervase Markham, the last by William 

 Lawson." 



This most delightful old book, with its 

 quaint woodcuts, has given me many an 

 hour's enjoyment. Part VI., by William 

 Lawson, should be read by every lover 

 of orchards, bees, and gardens. 



I am not aware that it has been pre- 

 viously pointed out that " The Whole 

 Art of Angling " contained in this volume 

 is not exactly what the editors of the 

 Bibliotheca Piscatoria call it viz., a prose 

 version of The Secrets of Angling. Thanks 

 again to my angling friend, Mr. W. B. 

 Adlington, who was fortunate enough to 

 pick it up at a second-hand bookseller's 

 shop for the price "of an old song," I 

 have been able to examine a copy of the 

 first edition of his " prose version," which, 

 as I have already stated, was published 

 in 1614 with Markham's Pleasures of 

 Princes. This very perfect and beautifully 

 printed black-letter edition contains " A 

 Discourse of the generall Art of Fishing 

 with the Angle, or otherwise, and of all 

 the hidden secrets belonging thereunto," 

 together " with the Choyce, Ordering, 

 Breeding, and Dyetting of the fighting 

 Cocke." 



It is pretty clear to me that this prose 

 work on angling of 1614 was compiled 



