156 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



Forest iife in Norway and Sweden ; etc. London, Rout- 

 ledge, 1859. pp. vi. 418. '] tvoodcuts. 12^. 



[ These two works are types of the higlier class of angling liter- 

 ature. Mr. Newland was Rector and Vicar of VVestbourne.] 



Nobbes (Robert). The complete troller, or, the art of trolling. 

 With a description of all the utensils, instruments, tackling, 

 and materials requisite thereto ; with rules and directions how 

 to use them. As also a brief account of most of the principal 

 rivers in England. By a Lover of the Sport. [ The Dedi- 

 catory Epistle is signed Ro. Nobbes.] London, printed by 

 T. James, for Tho. Helder at the Angel in Little Britain. 

 1682. pp. XX. 78. f. i. (contents). 8°.; Reprinted in facsimile^ 

 [1790.'] 8°. 



[ Also appended to " I he angler s pocket-book," with a separate 

 title :] ,- .. 



The complete troller, or, the art of trolling : with 



description of.. .tackle. ..requisite for a gentleman troller ; and 

 directions how to use them, etc By Robert Nobbes Esq. a.m. 

 " Trahit sua quemque voluptas." (Norwich: printed by J. 

 Payne.) pp. 32-108. (n. d.) 8°.; London, (n. d.) 8°.; London, 

 1805 & 1814. 12°. iSt'^ Angler. The angler's pocket-book. 

 [" P"rom the circumstance," says Sir Henry Ellis in his ' List of 

 angling books,' 1811, "of the author of this work signing himself 

 M. A. at the end of his verses 'On the Antiquitie and Invention of 

 Fishing,' and from the commendatory verses by Cambridge men in 

 the first edition of this work — I suspect him to have been the 

 Robert Nobbe,s, mentioned in Bishop Kennet's manuscript collec- 

 tion, as holding the vicarages of Apelthorp and Wood-Newton, in 

 Northamptonshire, in 1676. I believe he succeeded Di-. Robert 

 South." 



Nobbes is commonly called " The father of trollers," but from 

 this honorific title, we are by no means to infer that he was the 

 earliest writer on that branch of the sport. He was the earliest, 

 indeed, that discoursed at large, and in a substantial shape, on it, 

 the earliest authoritative professor, but Venables preceded him and 

 also Walton, Barker, and Master Leonard Mascall discoursed of 

 trolling in his " Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line" in 1590. 

 We may add to the antecedent list Blagrave, (1669), (Gilbert, (1676), 

 and J. S[mith], (1684), all writers on trolling. On the Continent 

 we have Gesner of Zurich ( De pisciiun naturd) 1558, and Aldro- 

 vandi of Bologna (Historia Piscium) 161 3 ; also Fortin, the Monk 

 of Grammont and so-called 'Solitaire hiventif,' who touches on 

 trolling in his "Ruses Innocentes," (chap. 24) and was followed by 

 other French angling authors. Amongst writers on trolling in 

 moro recent times, we may mention J. S. of the " hinocent Epi- 

 cure," 1697; John Whitney, in his "Genteel Recreation," 1700; 

 R. H[owlett] in " The Angler's Sure Guide," 1706; and Scott of 

 Ipswich, in his "Anglers, eight dialogues in verse," 1758. The 

 writers of the day, it is not necessary to recapitulate. ist edit, 

 sold at Haworth's, 13s.; and at Stanley's, i8s.] 



