ANGLING, FISHES, AND FISH CULTURE. 1 05 



*Ang. 16.14 [Markham, Gervase.] The pleasures of princes, or, 

 Good mens recreations. Contayning a discourse of the 

 generall art of fishing, with the angle, or otherwise, and of 

 all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto; with the 

 choyce, ordring, breeding, and dyetting of the fighting 

 cock, being a worke never in that nature handled by any 

 former author. London. 1635. sm. 4. pp. (2), 54. 



This forms the second part of the second book of his " English husband- 

 man." The "art of fishing" was also used by Markham in his "Country 

 contentments;" it contains many extracts rendered into prose, from the 

 " Secrets of angling" by John Dennys. 



Ang. 60. 1 [Markham, Gervase.] Away to get wealth; contain- 

 ing six principal vocations or callings, in which every good 

 husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. 

 The first five books gathered by G. M., the last by W. L. 

 The 1 3th time corrected and augmented by the author. 

 London. 1676. sm. 4. pp. (732). Plans and wdcts. 



Each part has a special title-page and separate paging. 



Contents : Cheap and good husbandry. I3th ed. 1676. Country con- 

 tentments; or, The husbandmans recreations, nthed. 1675. The Eng- 

 lish house-wife. 1675. The inrichment of the weald of Kent. 1675. 

 Farewel to husbandry. 1676. A new orchard & garden; by William Law- 

 son. 1676. 



V. 4398 Another copy. 



Imperfect: " Table of the Country contentments," 3 pp., wanting. 



Ang. 45*62 Markham, Gervase. The young angler's instructor. 

 (In The ANGLER'S garland and fisher's delight, 1871, 4, 

 pp. 12-19.) 



An extract from his work published about 1597 with the title, "The young 

 sportsman's instructor in angling, fowling, hawking, hunting, ordering singing 

 birds, hawks, poultry, coneys, hares, and dogs, and how to cure them." The 

 volume, according to Westwood and Satchell, measures 2\ inches by if. This 

 fragment contains fac-similes of the title-page and frontispiece of the original 

 edition, which, Pearson says, is " excessively rare." 



Ang. 50.90 Marsh, George Perkins. Report made under authority 

 of the legislature of Vermont, on the artificial propagation 

 of fish. [With an appendix.] Burlington. 1857. 8. 



"Artificial fish-breeding; abridged from an essay by Karl Vogt," [i. ] 22- 

 52. " Pisciculture;" by Jules Haime, [ii.] 10-40. 



47.43 Marshall, Rev. Charles. A plain and easy introduction 



to the knowledge and practice of gardening, with hints on 

 fish-ponds. 3d ed., enlarged. London. 1800. 16. 



Ang. 60.6 The same. 4th ed., enlarged and improved. 



[London.] 1805. sm. 1 2. 



" Hints on the method of managing pond-fish," pp. 413-417. 



" Mr. Marshall was favoured with this paper by an eminent literary charac- 

 ter in the church, ' a member of the free agricultural society at St. Peters- 

 burg. ' " Page W. 



