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handbook for the county and district... With illustrations and 



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[ Contains a table of " Derbyshire Fishing Stations," and a chapter 



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The compleat angler or the contempla- 

 tive man's recreation. Being a discourse of fish and fishing, 

 not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. Simon Peter said, I 

 go a fishing : and they said, we also wil go with thee. John 

 21.3. London, printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Harriot, in S. 

 Dunstans Church-yard, Fleet-street, 1653. 8. 



[ Collation : A-R 3 in eights ; or pp. xvi. 246. The first sentence 

 of the title is engraved on scroll, with dolphins above and below, 

 and clusters of fish pendant on either side. Very neat engravings 

 of the trout, pike, carp, tench, perch, and barbel are inserted in the 

 text. The -engraver is unknown, but Pierre Lombart, a noted 

 Frenchman then resident in this country and engaged in illustrating 

 books, and also Fai thorn e and Vaughan are possible candidates for 

 the honour. We know that the last mentioned was employed by 

 Harriot on other work. These plates which are said, with little 

 probability, to have been of silver, served for the first four editions, 

 and were re-engraved in reverse, by a less artistic hand, for the fifth 

 impression, a circumstance which has escaped notice. 



"The compleat angler" was published in the beginning of the 

 month of May and the first trace of its existence is found in an 

 advertisement on the last page (2716) of no. 179 of "The Perfect 

 Diurnal... From Munday May 9 to Munday May 16, 1652," 

 [1653]. There are five book advertisements, and one of the loss 

 of two geldings, in this number. The second as follows : " The 

 compleat angler, or the Contemplative man's Recreation, being a Dis- 

 course of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers, 

 of 18 pence price. Written by Iz. Wa. Also the known play of 

 the Spanish Gipsee, never till now published. Both printed for 

 Richard Marriot, to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church- 

 yard, Fleet street." Another advertisement, beginning "There is 



