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jardinet de poesie de C. de G.' Lyon, 1600. I2mo., dans lequel se 

 trouvent des monologues servant d'addition aux ' Pescheries.' " A 

 fine copy is in the Denison Collection;] 



Gardener. The gardener's chronicle and agricultural gazette. 

 In progress. London. 1841, etc. fol. 



[Contains (1863) a series of articles on "Fish and fishing," signed 

 E. C., in 21 chapters.] 



Gardiner (James). Bird, quadruped and fish preserving : a 

 manual of taxidermy for amateurs, etc. London, 1868. 8. 

 [ One of "The Champion hand-books."] 



Gardiner ( Samuel. Dr. of Divinitie ) . A Booke of Angling or 

 Fishing. Wherein is showed, by conference with Scriptures, 

 the agreement between the Fishermen, Fishes, and Fishing, 

 of both Natures, Temporall and Spirituall... Matthew iv. 19. 

 I will make you fishers of men. London: printed for Thomas 

 Purfoot, 1606. 8. 



[Dedicated to "Sir Henrie Gaudie, Sir Miles Corbet, Sir Ham- 

 mond Le Strang, Sir Henrie Spelman, Knights, my verie kinde 

 friends. 1 ' After the dedication is a page " To the Reader ; " and on 

 a fourth page, " The contents of this Book," in two Latin verses ; 

 " which I deliver in English thus : 



The Church I gouerne as a shippe, 



Wee, seae with world compare, 



The Scriptures are the enclosing nettes, 



And men the fishers are." 



Then follows the work itself, in 162 pages, divided into chapters, 

 the titles of which, because of the rarity of the volume, are here 

 subjoined literally, with the number of pages occupied by each. 



Chap. i. Of the Fisherman's Ship or Boat; pp. 1-12. ii. Of 

 the Waters that are for this Fishing ; pp. 12-23. iii- Of the Nets 

 and Angle Rod that are for this Fishing ; pp. 23-44. iv. Of the 

 Fishermen that principally are appointed for this office ; pp. 44-80. 

 v. The especiall duties of the Spirituall Fisherman ; pp. 81-94. 

 vi. Of the Fisherman's Baytes ; pp. 95-105. vii. Of the Fishes 

 that the Spirituall Angler or Fisherman onely fisheth for; pp. 105-18. 

 viii. The Sympathie of Natures ; of the Fishes of both Natures ; 

 pp. 119-46. ix. Of the Antipathic and differences of Fishes of 

 both sorts, and of the Angling of both kindes ; pp. 147-62. Finis, 

 " This book," says Hone, in his Year Book, may be denomina- 

 ted "Fishing spiritualized." He gives several extracts from it. 

 The Rev. H. S. Cotton wrote on the fly-leaf of his copy : " I know 

 of no other copy of this book, nor is it mentioned in any catalogue 

 or list of angling books that I have ever seen. I believe this to be 

 unique." It failed to find a purchaser at his sale for more than 

 ^4 2s., but produced ^40 when his son's books were dispersed. 

 This copy is now in Mr. Huth's library. The only other copy 

 known is in the Bodleian. A transcript, prepared for republication, 

 with a dedication to King George IV and an address "To his bro- 

 ther anglers," was made by the Rev. H. S. Cotton and is now in 

 the Denison Collection.] 



