6 B1BLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



Country contentments : or, the hvsbandmans re- 

 creations. Conlayning the wholsome experiences in which 

 any man ought to recreate himselfe, after the toyle of more 

 serious businesse. As namely, hunting, hawking,... The whole 

 art of angling, and the vse of the fighting cock. By G. M. 

 The fourth edition. Newly corrected, enlarged, and adorned 

 with many excellent additions, etc. London, printed by 

 Nicholas Oakes for John Harison, at the Golden Vnicorne in 

 Pater-noster-row. 1631. pp. x. 117. 4.; The fift edition. 

 Newly corrected, etc. L ndon, printed by Thomas Harper 

 for John Harrison. 1633. pp. viii. 118. 4.; The sixth edition. 

 London, printed by William Wilson for John Harison. 

 1649. pp. viii. 1 1 8. 4.; The seventh edition. London, E. 

 Brewster, 1654. pp. iv. 92. iv. 4.; The eighth edition. 

 1656. 4.; The ninth edition. London, G. Sawbridge, 1660. 

 4.; The tenth edition. London, George Sawbridge. 1668. 

 pp. iv. 92. iii. 4.; The eleventh edition. George Sawbridge, 

 1675. 4.; The fourteenth edition. London, Hannah Saw- 

 bridge. 1683. pp. x. 146. x. (table). 4. 



[ The editions 1611 and 1615, do not contain "The whole art of 

 angling as it was written in a small Treatise in Rime, and now, for 

 the better understanding of the reader, put into Prose, and adorned 

 and inlarged." The "small treatise" is certainly " The secrets of 

 angling" by John Dennys, and this prose version, which begins, 

 ' Since pleasure is a rapture, etc." is identical with that previously 

 published by Markham in "The English Husbandman," 1614. In 

 the editions" of 1631, 1633, and 1649 the angling treatise occupies 

 pp. 59-102. "Country Contentments" is one of the tracts included 

 in "A way to get wealth." There was also probably an edition of 

 1623, since the Museum possesses Book II. bearing that date, but as 

 we cannot trace a copy we have been unable to determine whether 

 it contains the angling" treatise or not.] 



A way to get wealth : containing sixe principal 



vocations... in which every good husband or housewife may 

 lawfully imploy themselves. The sixt edition. London, 1638 

 etc. 4.; other editions: 1631, 1648-9, 1653, 1657, 1660, 1668, 

 1683, 1695, etc. 



[ Under this collective title were issued five tracts by Markham 

 including "Cheape and good husbandry," " Markham's farewell to 

 husbandry," and "Country contentments," also " A new orchard," 

 by Lawson. These were of the same impressions as those issued 

 and sold separately.] 



The young sportman's instructor in angling, 



fowling, hawking, hunting, ordering singing birds, hawks, 

 poultry, coneys, hares and dogs, and how to cure them. By 

 G. M. Sold at the Gold Ring in Little Britain. Price 6d. 

 (n. d.) front., title, pp. 140. 48. 



[A to i in eights. This diminutive volume which measures 2^ins. 



