68 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



pp. viii.; title (2nd part), plate, pp. 1-98; title (3rd part), plate, pp 

 101-187 ; title (4th part), plate, pp. 78 ; title ("The Hunter. O.x- 

 ford, printed by L. Lichfield for Nicholas Cox." 1685), pp. 98. The 

 " large sculpture " is inscribed, '' The antient hunting noats with 

 Marsh's additions."] 



The gentleman's recreation :...The fourth edition. Lon- 



don, 1697. 8°. 



[Collation : Engraved title, title, pp. iv. 1-138 ; 1-9 1 ; 2-78; i- 

 71 ; "The Hunter," pp.90; title ("An abridgement of Manwood's 

 forest laws. And of all the Acts of Parliament made since ; which 

 relate to hunting, hawking, fishing and fowling. London, Nath. 

 Rolls." 1696), pp. 101. Folding plates as in previous editions.] 



— The gentleman's recreation :... The fifth edition. London: 

 printed by F. Collms for N. Cox. 1706. 8°. 



[Collation : Engraved title ; Title, pp. iv. 1-138 ; 1-91 ; 2-78; 



1-7 1 ; I-106 ; title (" An abridgement, ^/c. London, printed F. C. 



for N. C. 1705), pp. loi. viii. Folding plates as before.] 



The gentleman's recreation:... The sixth edition with large 



additions. London : printed for N. C. and sold by J. Wilcox, 



etc, 1 72 1. 8°. 



[ Collation : Frontispiece ; Title, etc., 2 leaves ; pp. iv. 438 ; Title 

 ("Manwood's forest laws. London. Printed by H. P. for N. C 

 1721), pp. 115. ix. Four folding plates; the first inscribed, "The 

 antient hunting notes with Mansh's and Coll, Cook's additions."] 



— The nobleman and gentleman's recreation ; viz. The 

 fowler. The falconer. The fisherman. The huntsman. 

 London : printed for J. Smeeton, 148 St. Martin's lane. 

 [181S?] 8°. 



[ Collation : Title (" The fowler "), pp. iv. 76 ; Title (" The fish- 

 erman : by Guiniad Charfy. Second edition. Printed for J. Smee- 

 ton"), pp. iv. 148. (See Ch.\rfv); Title ("The huntsman"), pp. iv. 

 124 ; Title (" The falconer"), pp. iv. 95. 



Nicholas Cox is of the superstitious, astrological, necromantical 

 order of angling writers. He makes us acquainted with divers 

 miraculous streams and unaccountable fishes — with a certain river 

 for instance "near Harwood, in Bedfordshire, which in the year of 

 our Lord 1399 (a little before the civil wars between York and Lan- 

 caster burst forth) of a sudden stood still, and divided itself asunder, 

 so that men might pass three miles together on foot down the midst 

 of the channel, leaving the waters, like a wall, behind them." And 

 again, of a " river in Judea, that runs very swiftly all the six days of 

 the week but resteth on the seventh, which is the Jewish Sabbath." 

 While, as a puzzle to ichthyologists, he relates seriatim, how, in the 

 year of our Lord 1180, near Orford in Suffolk "a fish was taken in 

 the perfect form of a man." How " he was kept by Bartholomew do 

 Glanville, in the castle of Orford, above half a year, but, at length, 

 not being carefully looked to, how he stole to the sea and was 

 never seen after." " He never spake," we are informed — " but 

 would eat any meat that was given him, especially fish" (the- 



