68 BIBLTOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



pp.viii.; title (2nd part), plate, pp. 1-98; title (3rd part), plate, pp 

 101-187 ; title (4th part), plate, pp. 78 ; title ("The Hunter., Ox- 

 ford, printed by L. Lichfield for Nicholas Cox." 1685), pp. 98. The 

 "large sculpture" is inscribed, "The antient hunting n oats with 

 Marsh's additions."] 



- The gentleman's recreation :...The fourth edition. Lon- 

 don, 1697. 8. 



[Collation : Engraved title, title, pp. iv. 1-138; 1-91 ; 2-78 ; i- 

 71 ; " The Hunter," pp. 90 ; title (" An abridgement of Man wood's 

 forest laws. And of all the Acts of Parliament made since ; which 

 relate to hunting, hawking, fishing and fowling. London, Nath. 

 Rolls." 1696), pp. 101. Folding plates as in previous editions.] 



The gentleman's recreation :... The fifth edition. London: 







printed by F. Collins for N. Cox. 1706. 8 



[ Collation : Engraved title ; Title, pp. iv. 1-138 ; 1-91 ; 2-78 ; 

 1-71 ; 1-106 ; title ("An abridgement, etc. London, printed F. C. 

 for N. C. 1705), pp. 101. viii. Folding plates as before.] 



The gentleman's recreation:... The sixth edition with large 

 additions. London : printed for N. C. and sold by J. Wilcox, 

 etc. 1721. 8. 



[ Collation : Frontispiece ; Title, etc., 2 leaves ; pp. iv. 438 ; Title 

 (" Manwood's forest laws. London. Printed by H. P. for N. C.' 

 1721), pp. 115. ix. Four folding plates ; the first inscribed, "The 

 antient hunting notes with Marsh's and Coll, Cook's additions."] 



The nobleman and gentleman's recreation ; viz. The 

 fowler. The falconer. The fisherman. The huntsman. 

 London : printed for J. Srneeton, 148 St. Martin's lane. 

 [1815?] 8. 



[Collation : Title ("The fowler"), pp. iv. 76 ; Title ("The fish- 

 erman : by Guiniad Charfy. Second edition. Printed for J. Smee- 

 ton"), pp. iv. 148. (See CHARFY); Title ("The huntsman"), pp. iv. 

 124 ; Title (" The falconer"), pp. iv. 95. 



Nicholas Cox is of the superstitious, astrological, necromantical 

 order of angling writers. He makes us acquainted with divers 

 miraculous streams and unaccountable fishes with a certain river 

 for instance "near Flarwood, in Bedfordshire, which in the year of 

 our Lord 1399 (a little before the civil wars between York and Lan- 

 caster burst forth) of a sudden stood still, and divided itself asunder, 

 so that men might pass three miles together on foot down the midst 

 of the channel, leaving the waters, like a wall, behind them." And 

 again, of a " river in Judea, that runs very swiftly all the six days of 

 the week but resteth on the seventh, which is the Jewish Sabbath. 1 ' 

 While, as a puzzle to ichthyologists, he relates seriatim, how, in the 

 year of our Lord 1180, near Orford in Suffolk "a fish was taken in 

 the perfect form of a man." How " he was kept by Bartholomew de 

 Glanville, in the castle of Orford, above half a year, but, at length, 

 not being carefully looked to, how he stole to the sea and was 

 never seen after.' 1 " He never spake," we are informed "but 

 would eat any meat that was given him, especially fish" (the 



