XL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. 



the end some few recipes and rules, one of which is signed 

 R. R.,* and the last bids us : " Pray to God with your 

 hearte to blesse your lawfull exercise." This edition is 

 also rare in the extreme. A copy, though expensively 

 bound, but having the date cut off, cost Mr. Haworth ten 

 guineas ; another sold at his sale for £4 ; and one with 

 frontispiece at Mr. Symond Higg's sale for £12. Lauson's 

 edition was reprinted in the Censuria Literaria, 8vo., 

 Lond., 1811. A hundred copies were taken off separately 

 " for Robert Triphook,'' one of which is now before me. 

 This is the work quoted by Walton, b. I., i., where he 

 savs : " Will vou hear the wish of another angler, and the 

 commendation of his happy life, which he also sings in 

 verse ? viz., Jo. Daves, Esqr. : 



" ' Let me live harmlessly,' &c." 



It is also the basis of Gervase Markham's Treatise on 

 Angling, in his Country Contentments (2d edit., 1613), as 

 he says in his title : " It was written in rime, and now for 

 the better understanding of the reader put into prose, and 

 adorned and enlarged.'' R(obert) H(owlett), in his 

 Angler's Sure Guide, p. 241, cites a verse of it, "O world's 

 deceit," &c., as from Dr. Donne, " his elegie or mournful 

 ditty in his Secrets of Angling." 



The true author was John Dennys, Esqr., Lord of the 

 Manor of Owlburv-sur Montem, Gloucestershire, 1572- 

 1608. His mother was a Davers or Danvers, and the Jo. 

 Daves who wrote the commendatory verses, was probably 

 a relation of his, as that was the old way of spelling the 

 name, according to Leland. (Itin., vol. iii., 115.) Walton 



his Answer to the Objection shewn himselfe to have been vertuous. The 

 subject itselfe is honest, and pleasant, and sometimes profitable. Use it, 

 and give God all glory. Amen." 



• Supposed by some (but without good reason) to have been Walton's 

 honest R. Roe. It is R. B. in the first edition. 



