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Forrester, Frank, psewdon. See Herbert, Henry Wil- 
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*Ang. 1.497 [Fortin, Frangois.] Les ruses innocentes; dans _ les- 
quelles se voit comment on prend les oyseaux passagers, & 
les non passagers, & de plusieurs sortes de bestes 4 quatre 
pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pesche dans les 
riviéres & dans les estangs, et la maniére de faire tous les 
rets & filets qu’ on peut s'imaginer. Ouvrage trés curieux, 
utile, & récréatif pour toutes personnes qui font leur séjour” 
ala campagne. Par F. F. F. R. D. G. dit le Solitaire 
inventif. Paris. 1660. 4° 66 plates. 
The present ‘‘ edition has become very rare, and is, on the whole, the most 
interesting contribution made by France to the literature of angling.’’— West- 
wood and Satchel. 
This was the forerunner of a series of works with the same or similar titles, 
by various compilers. Louis Liger’s ‘‘ Amusemens de la campagne’’ was 
founded upon it, and in several editions the first book of ‘* Les ruses ’’ appears 
without alteration, and with reduced copies of the illustrations. 
The initials used by the author in the title are interpreted: Frére Frangois 
Fortin religieux de Grandmont. 
*Ang. 18.82 Foster, David. The scientific angler; being a general 
and instructive work on artistic angling. By David Foster; 
compiled by his sons. London, ec. [1882.] sm. 8° 
Port. and 6 plates. 
“Sketch of David Foster,’’ pp. vii.—x. 
Ang. 18.82.2 The same. Edited by W. C. Harris. New 
York. 1883. 12% 6 plates. 
This edition does not contain the chapter on trout culture, as the editor 
considers it ‘‘far behind the present advanced status of fish culture in America.”’ 
*Ang. 45.35 Foster, W. A. Songs on angling, etc. New York. 
1886. 8° pp. 20. 
**25 copies privately reprinted from ‘ Whistle-Binkie’ and the ‘ Book of 
Scottish song.’ ’’ 
Ang. 45.36 Fournival ov FURNIVAL, Richard DE. La vieille; ou, Les 
derniéres amours d’Ovide; poéme francais du XIV® siécle, 
traduit du latin par Jean Lefévre. Publié pour la premiére 
fois et précédé de recherches sur l’auteur du Vetula par 
Hippolyte Cocheris. Paris. 1861. sm. 8° 
*“ 350 exemplaires.”’ 
** Translated, or rather imitated, from a Latin poem De vetula, attributed 
to Richard de Fournival. . . . The passage which treats of fishing is head- 
ed ‘Comment Ovide tendait aux poissons,’ and consists of 68 lines. De 
Fournival’s work cannot but be interesting to the angling bibliophile, as show- 
ing that more than 400 years ago most of the modern modes of fishing were 
practised. . . . The poem was formerly attributed to Ovid, and a story 
was current that a copy had been discovered in his tomb. It was first printed, 
probably at Rome, about 1470, under the title: ‘ P. Ovidii Nasionis liber de 
vetula.’’? — Westwood and Satchell. ‘ 
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