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BARKER (Thomas of Bracemeale, Salop) Art of Angling, 

 wherein are discovered many rare Secrets very necessary to be 

 known by all that delight in that recreation. 12mo, Lond. 

 1651. Reprinted by Burn, Lond. 1820. Another Edition in 

 4to } Lond. 1653, without the Author's name subjoined to the 

 Countrymen's Eecreations. 4to, Lond. 1654. Large 8vo, 1817, 

 reprinted by Inchbold and Gawtress, Leeds. 

 BARKER'S DELIGHT ; or, the Art of Angling. By Thomas 

 Barker. Second Edition, with considerable Additions and 

 commendatory Verses prefixed. 12mo, Lond. 1657. Lond. 

 reprinted by Burn, 1820. Again by Hodgson and Co. some 

 copies of which have the name of E. Bryant as publisher, 1826. 

 This book is inserted in the Young Sportsman's Miscellany. 

 12mo. 1826. 



In an Epistle to the Reader, prefixed to the first edition, and in the Dedi- 

 cation of the second to Lord Montague, Barker speaks of himself as having 

 practised Angling for half a century ; adding, " if any noble or gentle Angler 

 have a mind to discourse of these ways and experiments, I live in 

 Henry Vllth's Gifts, the next doore to the Gatehouse in Westminster : 

 where I shall be ready to satisfie them and maintain my art; my name is 

 Barker " 



The second edition, so called, 12mo, Lond. 1657, with Commendatory 

 Verses prefixed. This is the first edition that has the title of "Barker's 

 Delight." The second edition (likewise so called), Lond. 1659, is in fact the 

 same, with only a new title-page. 



BATHURST (The Hon. and Rev. Charles) Notes on Nets, or the 

 Quincux practically considered, to which are added Miscellanea 

 Memoranda. 12mo, Lond. Van Yoorst, 1837. 

 BENNETT (John W.) Fishes of Ceylon. 4to, Lond. Bull, 1830. 

 New edit. Lond. Bohn, 1851. 



BERNERS, BARNES, or BERNES (LADY JULIANA). 

 I. The Bokys of Haukyng and Huntyng ; and also of cootar- 

 muris. Compylyt at St. Albons. 1486. Folio, bl. 1. 



The volume commences with signature ij ; the first leaf was, in all pro- 

 bility, a blank one. 



On the recto of a ij, at top, we read : 



" In so much that gentill men and honest persones have greete delite in 

 haukyng, and desire to have the maner to take haukys ; and also how and 

 in waat wyse they shulde gyde theym ordynateli ; and to knaw the gentill 

 termys in cpmmunyng of theyr haukys ; and to understonde theyr sekeneses 

 and enfirmitees ; and also to knawe medicines for theym accordyng ; and 

 mony notabull termys that ben used in haukyng, both of their haukys and 

 of the fowles that their hawkys shall sley. Therefore thys book, fowlowyne 

 in a dew forme, shewys veri knawlege of auche plesure to gentill men ana 

 personys disposed to se itt." 



