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Dame Julyans or Juliana Barnes, Bernes or Berners, to whom these 

 treatises are ascribed, is supposed to have been a daughter of Sir 

 James Berners of Roding Berners in the county of Essex (a favourite 

 of Richard the Second) who was beheaded in 1388. It is said that 

 she was celebrated for her learning and accomplishments and that she 

 held the office of Prioress of the Benedictine Nunnery of Sopwell, 

 near St. Albans, but as far as we can learn, these statements rest on 

 pure conjecture or meagre inference. The first edition of her Book 

 of St. Albans was printed by the school- master printer of St. 

 Albans in 1486.] 



Here begynneth a treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle. 



[Colophon:] Here endeth the boke of Fysshynge with other 

 dyuers maters. Imprynted at London, by Wynkyn de Worde, 

 dwellynge in Flete-street, at the sygne of the Sonne. [circa 

 1500.] 4. 



[Black letter. A to D.iv. The woodcut of a man angling is under 

 the title. This edition appears to have been published as a " lytyll 

 plaunflet " notwithstanding the caution of the authoress against this 

 course, given in the concluding paragraph of the treatise in previous 

 editions, which in this instance is omitted : "And for by cause that 

 this present treatyse sholde not come to the hondys of eche ydle 

 persone, whyche wolde desire it yf it were enprynted allone by itself, 

 and put in a lytyll plaunflet therfore I haue compylyd it in a greter 

 volume of dyuerse bokys concernynge to gentyll and noble men 

 to the entent that the forsayd ydle persones whyche sholde haue but 

 lytyll mesure in the sayd dysporte of fysshyng sholde not by this 

 meane vtterly dystroye it." 



This edition varies the orthography and has some slight corrections 

 of the text and some omissions. The only known copy which was 

 formerly in the Harleian Collection subsequently passed through the 

 hands of Mr. Gulston, Mr. RatclifFe, Mr. Haworth and Mr. George 

 Wilkinson.] 



The boke of hawkynge and huntynge and fysshynge. 



[Colophon:] Here endeth the boke of hawkynge huntynge 

 and fysshynge, and with many other dyuer maters. Im- 

 prynted in Flete strete at ye sygne of ye sonne, by Wynkyn 

 de Worde. [circa 1 503] 4. 



[Black letter. 46 leaves. A-H in eights and fours alternately, 

 except G, which has six leaves. " Fysshynge" begins on the verso 

 of F i, and has the angler woodcut underneath the title. The catch- 

 word throughout the volume is "huntynge." This edition reads 

 " Of Saynt Thomas tyde of Caunterbure." The copy formerly in 

 the; possession of Mr. George Daniel and now in the Huth Library, 

 is supposed to be unique. Mr. Daniel considered it to be earlier 

 than the folio of Wynkyn de Worde in 1496. It was sold at his sale 

 in July 1864 for 110.] 



The booke of hauking hunting and fysshyng, with 



all the properties and medecynes that are necessary to be kept. 

 [Colophon :] Imprynted at London in Fletestreate at the 



