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Dame Julyans or Juliana Barnes, Bernes or Berners, to whom these 

 treatises arc ascri!)cci, is supposed to have been a daughter of Sir 

 James Berners of Rodin^ IVtirts in tiu' county of ICsscx (a favourite 

 of Richard the Second) who was beheaded in 13X8. It is said that 

 she was celebrated for her learning,' and accompiislimcnts and that she 

 held the office of Prioress of the Benedictine Nunnery of Soi)welI, 

 near St. Albans, but as far as we can learn, these statements rest on 

 pure conjecture or meapre inference. The first edition of her Book 

 of St. Albans was printed by the school-master printer of St. 

 Albans in i486.] 



Here begynneth a treatyse of fysshynge wylh an angle. 



[Colnphoji :'] Here endeth the boke of Fysshynge with other 

 dyuers maters. Imprynted at London, by Wynkyn de Worde, 

 dwcUynge in Flete-street, at the sygne of the Sonne, [circa 



1500.] 4'"- 



[Black letter, a to d iv. 1 he woodcut of a man angling is under 

 the title. This edition appears to have been published as a "lytyll 

 plaunilct " notwithstanding the caution of the authoress against this 

 course, given in the concluding paragraph of the treatise in previous 

 editions, which in this instance is omitted : "And for bv cause that 

 this present treatyse sholde not come to the hondys of eche vdle 

 pcrsone, whyciie woldc desire it yf it were enprynted allone by itself, 

 and put in a lytyll plaunllet thcrfore I hauc compylyd it in a greter 

 volume of dyuerse bokys concernynge to gent\-ll and noble men 

 to the entcn't that the forsayd ydle pcrsones whyche sholde haue but 

 lytyll mesure in the sayd dysporte of fysshyng sholde not by this 

 meane vtteri}- d3-stroye it." 



This edition varies the orthography and has some slight corrections 

 of the te.xt and some omissions. The only known copy which was 

 formerly in the Harleian Collection subsequently passed through the 

 hands of Mr. Gulston, Mr. Ratcliffe, Mr. Haworth and Mr. George 

 Wilkinson.] 



The boke of hawkynge and huntynge and fysshynge. 



\_ColopIioii:'\ Here endeth the boke of hawkynge huntynge 

 and fysshynge, and with many other dyucr maters. Im- 

 prynted in Flete strete at ye sygne of ye sonne, by Wynkyn 

 de Worde. {circa 1503] 4°. 



[Black letter. 46 leaves, a-h in eights and fours alternatelv, 

 except G, which has six leaves. "Fysshynge" begins on the verso 

 of F i, and has the angler woodcut underneath the title. The catch- 

 word throughout the volume is " huntynge." This edition reads 

 "Of Saynt Thomas tyde of Caunterbure." The copv formerlv in 

 the possession of Mr. George Daniel and now in the Huth Librarv, 

 is supposed to be unique. Mr. Daniel considered it to be earlier 

 than the folio of ^Vynkyn de Worde in 1496. It was sold at his sale 

 in July 1864 for ;^iio.] 



The booke of banking hunting and fysshyng, with 



all the properties and medecynes that are necessary to be kept. 

 \_Colophon .•'I Imprynted at London in Fletestreate at the 



