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guide ; containing the necessary forms for registering the 

 quantity of fish taken during the year ; to which is appended 

 a correct and comprehensive account of the different modes 

 of angUng, how, and where to take fish. London, 1867. 14 

 /eaves. 8°. 



[ Issued by a Long Acre tackle-maker.] 



Williams (Samuel). The boy's treasury of sports, pastimes 

 and recreations. London, 1814. 8°. 

 [ Tlie angler, pp. 160-192.] 

 Williams (W. Mattieu). Through Norway wiih a knapsack... 

 With six tinted views and map. London, Smith, Elder and 

 Co., 1859. pp. xii. 332 8°. 

 \A/^illiamson (John). The British angler: or, a pocket-com- 

 panion for gentlemen-fishers. Being a new and methodical 

 treatise of the art of angling : comprehending all that is 

 curious and useful in the knowledge of that polite diversion. 

 As: L An introduction. ..IL The angler's apparatus. ..IIL An 

 exact description of the several kinds of fish... IV. The whole 

 practice of angling... Together with supplemental discourses, 

 I. On fish ponds and reservations. 2. On the law's against 

 poachers and in favour of the fair angler, e^c. Embellished 

 with copper-plates curiously engraved. The whole compiled 

 from approved authors, and above thirty years' experience, by 

 J. Williamson, Gent,, who has added a versification of the 

 principal heads at the end of each chapter, for the help of 

 memory. London, printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking- 

 glass on London Bridge, mdccxl. front. ^ pp. viii. 318. x 

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[ One of the best of the manuals but without any special value 

 beyond. There is a voluminous chapter on pastes, which is a general 

 raking together of all antecedent recipes of the kind, mediaeval and 

 modern. A copv (of the same impression) in the Denison collec- 

 tion, mutilated bv the binder, appears to be dated mdccx. The 

 publisher's tenancy of the Looking-glass commenced about 1733 and 

 can be traced to 1757. The destruction of the accounts of the 

 "Bridge House Trust" by fire in 1785, has removed the means of 

 accurately determining this point, F, Hodges was the occupier in 

 1710.] 



Williamson fCapiainT.) The complete angler's vade-mecum; 

 being a perfect code of instruction on the above pleasing 

 science, wherein are detailed, a great variety of original prac- 

 tices and inventions... Illustrated with [18] engravings [of 

 fish and tackle]. London, Payne and Mackinlay, 1808. pp. xi. 

 316. 8°.; London, Sherwood, 1822 ; [with new title-page :] 

 London. Thos. Gosden, 1825, 12°. 



[ The author says " I have not servilely copied from anv man ; 

 but when my experience has justified a concurrence with the prac- 



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