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the second volume of " British Bibliography," p. 355, he is men- 

 tioned as JOHN DENNVS, Esquire. Large extracts from this 

 Work are given by SIR EGERTON BRIDGES, in the last volume 

 of his Censura Literaria. The poetry, of which several passages 

 are quoted by Walton, is remarkable for its beauty. 



THE PLEASURES OF PRINCES, OR GOOD MEN'S RE- 

 CREATIONS ; containing a Discourse of the General Art of 

 Fishing with the Angle, or otherwise, and of all the Hidden 

 Secrets belonging thereunto ; together with the Choyce, Order- 

 ing, Breeding, and Dyetting of the Fighting Cocke ; being a 

 Worke never in that nature handled ,by any former author. 

 Lond. 1614, 4to. This treatise forms part of the second book of 

 the English Husbandman, by. G. M. (GERVAIS MARKHAM.) 



A BRIEFE TREATISE OF FISHING, WITH THE ART 

 OF ANGLING. Lond. 1614, 4to. This volume is little else 

 than a reprint from a portion of the Book of St. Alban's, and 

 forms part of the Jewell for Gentrie, by T. S. 



CHEAP AND GOOD HUSBANDRY; by GERVAIS MARK- 

 HAM. 4to, Lond. 1616. This Work contains a Chapter on Fish 

 and Fish-Ponds. 



COUNTRY CONTENTMENTS; OR THE HUSBAND- 

 MAN'S RECREATIONS : by J. M. In the fifth and sixth 

 editions of this volume (4to, Lond. 1633 and 1639), will be 

 found 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 enlarged. This is a 

 prose version, with additions, of Davors' Secrets of Angling. 



THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION, 2 vols. 

 12mo, Lond. 1753, is a reprint, without acknowledgement, of 

 Markham's work. 



THE ART OF ANGLING ; wherein are discovered many rare 

 secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight in that re- 

 creation, written by THOMAS BARKER, an antient practitioner in 

 the said art. 12mo, Lond. 1651. In an epistle to the reader, 

 prefixed to the first edition, and in the dedication of the two last 

 to Edward Lord Montague, Barker speaks of himself as having 

 practised Angling for more than half a century. He also says 

 he was born and educated at Bracemeall, in the liberty of Sa- 

 lop, being a freeman and burgesse of the same city ; adding, " if 



