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In 1496, we have a treatise on angling, published by 

 Wynkin de Worde, in the form of a small folio, which is a 

 republication of the celebrated Book of St. Albans, and 

 containing a tract, entitled ' The Treatyse of Eysshinge 

 wyth an Angle,' and ornamented with a somewhat rude 

 woodcut of an angler. 



This work has been commonly attributed to Jane 

 Juliana Berners, or Barnes, a prioress of the Nunnery of 

 St. Albans. " The angler," says this fair writer, " atte 

 the leeste, hath his holsom walke, and merry at his ease, a 

 swete ayare of the swete sauoure wherewith the melodyous 

 armory of fowlls, he seeth the younge swannes, heerons, 

 duckes, cotes, and many other fowles, with their brodes, 

 whych to me seemeth better than all the noyse of houndry, 

 the blastes of homes, and the scrye of fowles, that hunters, 

 fawkeners, and fowlers can make. And if the angler of 

 the fysshe, surely thenne, is there noo man happyei than 

 he is in his sporyte." 



In 1558, we have the celebrated work of Hippolito 

 Salviani, entitled Aquatilium Animalium Historia. It 

 is a philosophical work of 500 pages, with upwards of 

 100 copper-plate engravings; and it gives a very full 

 and correct account of the nature and habits of fish 

 generally. 



The art of angling was treated of in a sentimental 

 strain by several Italian writers in the sixteenth century. 

 In 1584 we have L'Alces Favola Pescatoria, by Antonio 

 Ongaro, published at Venice, and highly embellished with 



