BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 41 



the Lower Walk in the New Exchange. Anno Dom. mdclxv 

 12 .; 2iul edit. 1669. Reprinted : Oxford. 1848 



[Though the 4th section contains frequent allusions to anclinc 

 the details of tiie sport are merely employed as the pegs on 

 which to hang moral and religious reflections. "For" say^s the 

 author, "bemg really a great lover of angling, and frequently 

 dnertmg myself at {that sport, sometimes alone and .sometimes in 

 company, the accidents of that recreation were the true themes on 

 which Uie following discourses were not the only meditations I had 

 made Discourse iv is entitled "Upon fishing with a counterfeit 

 fly. piscoursev. "Upon a fishe's struggling after swallow'd the 

 hook Discourse x. " Upon a fishe's running away with the bait " 

 And discourse xv. "Upon catching store of fish at a baited place" 

 Ihe 1st edition is rare. No name is on the title page, but the 

 preface is signed, R. B. Rev. W. Cotton's .sale 14s 



As further specimens of Angling spiritualized we may cite here- 

 Ur. John Rawhnsons "Fishermen, Fishers of men,- a .sermon 

 preached at Mercer's Chapel on Mid-lent Sunday, the 26th March " 

 London, 1609. 410.; "The Fisher, a visitation .sermon, preached at 

 Horncast e, in Lincolnshire, by AVm. Worship, D.D. and printed for 

 Thomas Pavier." London, 1615 ; "The Fisherman. A sermon 

 preached at Southwark in Nottinghamshire, by Jerome Phillips " 

 1623. 4to.] ■^ ' 



Bradley (Richard). A philosophical account of the works of 

 iNature, with many curious cuts. 1721. 4°. 



[Fish ponds and breeding offish are treated of, pp. 178— 181.] 

 ■ See Chomel (Noel). 



- The country gentleman and farmer's monthly direc- 

 tor. Containing necessary instructions for the management 

 and improvement of a farm in every month of the vear 

 Wherein IS directed the.. .breeding and feeding of poultry' 

 rabbits, fish, swine, and all sorts of cattle. London d' 

 Browne, 1726. 8°. ' 



The country housewife and lady's director, in the 



management of a house and the delights and profits of a farm 



etc. Ihe second edition. London, 1727. 8°. i87pp ' 



[ Observations on the breeding and natural history of fresh water 



hsh are interspersed among various economical receipts A second 



part was published in 1732. Bradley was Professor of Botany in 



the University of Cambridge and F.R.S.] ^ 



Braithwaite (George Foster). Fishes and their food ; bein^ a 

 paper on the salmon family, etc. Kendal, 1863 8° 



explrienc?s!]'°"' °^ '^' ''"'"' "■' '"^°''"^ ^^' "^^"^ ^"^'^^g 

 Brander (Fr. Reg.) De regia piscatura Cumoensi. Aboae 



1 75 1. 4°. ftg. ^UUcC, 



Bretonnerie (De La). Correspondance rurale, occupations 

 economi^e^s^et amusements de la campagne. Paris, Onfroy,' 



