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printed in fao-simile by Mr. Haselwood (London), 1819; 

 and the separate Treatyse of Fysshing wyth an Angle, from 

 this edition was reprinted by W. Pickering, in crown 

 8vo, with Baskerville's types, in 1827. 



This, then, is the first contribution to the Literature of 

 Pishing. But Dame Juliana, however much she may 

 have stimulated the practice of angling itself, does not 

 appear to have immediately stimulated angling author- 

 ship. It was not till 1590 that the first edition of 

 Leonard Mascall's Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line, 

 and all other instruments thereunto belonging, appeared. 

 With the exception, however, of some remarks on the 

 " preservation of fish in ponds," it does not contain much 

 in the way of improvement on Juliana. William Gryn- 

 dall's Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, and Fishing, now newly 

 collected, by W. G. Faukener," was published in 1596 a.d. 

 Samuel Gardiner, Doctor of Divinity, in his Booke of 

 Angling or Fishing, which appeared in 1606, teaches us 

 " by conference with Scriptures, the agreement betweene 

 the Fisherman, Fishes, and Fishing of both natures, tem- 

 poral! and spirituall." 



We now come to what may be called the Waltonian 

 period. Barker's Art of Angling, wherein are discovered 

 many rare secrets very necessary to be known by all that 

 delight in that recreation, was first published in 1651, 

 i. e. two years before the first edition of Walton's " Oom- 

 pleat Angler." The name of the book seems to have 

 been changed into that of Barker's Delight, when it ap- 

 peared in a second edition, with considerable additions, 

 in 1657. Barker was evidently a quaint old fellow, and 

 an enthusiastic angler. After the dedication of his 

 volume to the Eight Hon. Edward Lord Montague, he 



