APPENDIX. 159 



A neat, unpretending treatise for beginners, well put together, concise 

 and correct. 



f Art of Angling. London : 1809. 12mo. Another trifle. 

 *f Art of Angling, from p. 244 to 312 of the Laboratory in the School 

 of Arts. 



Art of Angling and Fishing. 

 This title is from an old sale catalogue, but nothing more is known of 



the book by the compiler of this list. 



Art of Angling. Printed by Smeeton. 18mo. 

 Principally taken from Markham and Venables. 



f Arte Piscatoria (De), Concerning Angling for a Trout or Gray- 

 ling. 

 This is a very curious MS., by Robert Noble, who appears to have been 



a clergyman. It begins thus : 

 3 waies. 1. At the Top ; 2. At the bottom ; 3. In the middle. At the 



top with a fly. At the bottom with a ground-bait. In the middle with 



a minnow or ground-bait. 



1 fa quick fly, 

 At the top is of 2 sorts, with < 



2 (^an artificial fly. 



1 fhy hand. 

 At the bottom is of 2 sorts, < 



2 (^ or with a float. 



'with a minnow for a trout, 



or 

 with a ground-bait for a grayling 



or omber, vulgo oummdr. 

 'with a natural fly. 



1 



For the middle is of 2 sorts, 



2 



^with an artificial or made fly. 



1 



1. Of fly-fishing at the top, - 



2 



1. First y" of the natural Fly which are to be used in May and June 

 only ; namely, the Green-drake, the Stone-fly, and the Chamlet-fly, to 

 which I may add the grasshopper, the most excellent of any. 



After this, follows : " 2. With an artificial or made fly you are to angle 

 with a line (or tawm)," &.c. 



Then follows a list of flies for each month, the same and in nearhj the 

 same words as Cotton's, in his second part of the Angler, and the 

 treatise breaks off. From this it is clear, that either Cotton copied 

 from this treatise, or the treatise is a synopsis from Cotton. There is 

 no date to the treatise itself; but it is bound up with an essay on 

 another s,u\i]Qct folloiving it, dated 1669, seven yrars before Cotton 

 published his. The paper following it, so far as cm be judged, seems 

 to be later, though in the same hand-writing. There is also in the 

 same book a baptismal record of Rob. Noble's children, the first date 

 of which is 1669, the last 1701 ; with other papers. These throw 

 uncertainty upon the date of the treatise; but, if it be older than 

 Cotton's work, it accounts for the rapidity with which Cotton prepared 



