162 APPENDIX. 



and in the late Mr. Dent's library. Probably the finest extant upon 

 paper was Mr. Hanrott's, which is now in the Collection of the Hon. 

 George John Vernon. 



This edition was reprinted in fac-simile, by Mr. Haslewood, London, 

 1810 ; and the Treatyse of Fisshing wyth an Angle, from this edition, 

 was reprinted by W. Pickering, in crown 8vo., with Baskerville 

 Types. liOndon : 1827. 



The first edition was printed at St. Albans, 1486, containing the Trea- 

 tises of Hawking, Hunting, and Coat Armour ; and reprinted by 

 Markham, under the title of The Gentleman's Academie, or the Book 

 of St. Albans : containing three most exact and excellent Bookes : the 

 first of Hawking, the second of all the proper termes of Hunting, and 

 the last of Armorie, all compiled by Juliana Barnes, in the yere from 

 the incarnation of Christ, 1486, And now reduced into a better method 

 by G. M. London. Printed for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at 

 his shop in Paules Church- Yard. 1505. 4to. 



IL Here begynnyth a treatyse of fisshyinge with an angle. Small 



4to. 



The title over the wood-cut of a man angling, on the reverse of D. IIII., 

 Here endeth the boke of Fysshynge wyth other dyuers maters, Im- 

 prvntcd at London by Wynkyn de Worde, dwellynge in Flete strete, 

 at the sygne of the Sonne. 



Small 4to., with wood-cuts, A. to D. iiij. This edition appears to have 

 been published as a distinct treatise : the concluding paragraph of the 

 former edition is omitted, stating '• and for by cause that this present 

 treatyse sholde not come to the hondys of eche ydle persone, whyche 

 wolde desire it yf it were emprynted allone by itself, and put in a 

 lytyll Plaunfiet; therefore I iiaue compylyd it in a greter volume of 

 dyuerse bokys concernynge to gentyll and noble men. To the entent 

 tliat the foresyd ydle porsones whyche scholde haue but lytyll mesure 

 in the sayd dysporte of fysshyng, sholde not by this mcane vtterly dys- 

 troye it." 



The only copy known, which was formerly Mr. Haworth's, is in the 

 Collection of George Wilkinson, Esq. (This was most probably part 

 of the impression of the several treatises in 1532. See note in Mr. 

 Haworth's sale catalogue, and the Bib. Pref. to Wiley &. Putnam's 

 edition of Walton.) 



in. The boke of hawkynge, and huntynge, and fysshynge. Small 

 4to. 



Wood-cut group of men with hawk, as in W. de Worde's edition, 1496. 

 Reverse of c. 7 ||, Thus endctii the boke of hawkynge ; c. 8, Here be- 



gynneth the boke of huntynge; on reverse of F. 1, four lines of the 



ballad : 



Therefore assaye thorn euerych one, &c. 



IT. Thus endeth the treatyse of hiityngc, and other thyges. 



And here begynneth a treatise of fysshyinge w' an angle. Wood-cut 



underneath. 

 F. 2 Commences Salomon, &c., and ends on reverse of Hiv. 



