"The Country Gentleman's Vade Mecum," by G. Jacob, Gent. 8°. Lond. 1717. contains p. 25-31. a few pages upon Fish, Angling, Fish Ponds, &c. "The Compleat Sportsman," by Giles Jacob. 12°. Lond. 1718. Part III. of which relates to "Fish and Fishing." "England's Interest; or the Gentleman and Farmer's Friend: by Sir J. Moore." 8°. Lond. 1721. Contains (p. 99 to 157) "The Angler's Guide." "The Gentleman Angler." 8. Lond. 1726. date. 2d edit. 8°. Lond. 1736. 3d edit. 8°. Lond. without This work was again printed as a novel publication in 1786, viz. "The Gentleman Angler. Containing brief and plain Instructions by which the young beginner may in a short time become a perfect Artist in Angling for all kinds of Fish. By a Gentieman, who has made it his diversion upwards of fourteen years.' 12°. Lond. 1786. Piscatory Eclogues." 8°. Lond. 1729. 8°. Lond. 1739. 3d edit. entitled " Angling Sports, in Nine Piscatory Eclogues." 8°. Lond. 1773. "Piscatio. Or Angling. A Poem. Written originally in Latin by S. Ford, D. D. and inscrib'd to Archbishop Sheldon. Translated from the Musæ Anglicana, by Tipping Silvester, M. A. Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxon. Lucet, eamus Quo ducit Gula, piscemur. 8°. Oxford. 1733. Hor. Epist. 4. Lib. 1." [The original is in the Muse Anglicana, Vol. I. or rather "Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta sive, Poemata quædam melioris notæ, seu hactenus Inedita, seu sparsim Edita, in unum Volumen congesta." 8°. Oxon. 1692, p. 129. "Piscatio ad Gilb. Archiepisc. Cant." signed, "Simon Ford, S. T. P."] Sportsman's Dictionary; or the Gentleman's Companion in all Rural Recreations." 2 vol. 8°. 1735. "The "The British Angler: or a Pocket-Companion for Gentleman Fishers, by John Williamson, Gent." 8°. Lond. 8°. Lond. 1740. "Fishing and Hunting." 8°. Lond. "The Art of Angling, Rock, and Sea, Fishing: with a Natural History of River, Pond, and Sea Fish, by R. Brookes." 8. Lond. 1740. 2d edit. 8°. Lond. 1743- a new edit." 8°. Lond. 179366 a new edit." 8°. Lond. 1801. "a new edit." 8°. Lond. 1807. [In Ford of Manchester's Catalogue of Books for 1811, an edition printed at Dublin in 1778 is mentioned.] "The Art of Angling, by R. Brookes, M. D. now improved with Additions, and formed into a Dictionary." 8°. Lond. 1766. Angling, a Poem." 12°. Lond. 1741. 2d edit. "The Art of Angling improved, in all its parts, especially Fly-fishing," by Richard Bowlker. 12. Worcester. [Certainly published before 1759.] son. 8°. .... 2d edit. by Charles Bowlker, his 3d edit. 8°. Birmingham. [Printed with Baskerville's types.] 4th edit. 8°. Birm. 1788. a new edition," by Charles Bowlker, of Ludlow. 8°. Ludlow. 1806. "The Angler's Magazine, or necessary and delightful Store-house; wherein every thing proper to be known relating to his art, is digested in such a method as to assist his knowledge and practice upon bare inspection; being the compleatest manual ever published upon the subject; largely treating of all things relating to to Fish and Fishing, and whereby the Angler may acquire his experience without the help of a Master. By a Lover of that innocent and healthful diversion." 12°. Lond. 1754. "The Angler's Eight Dialogues, in Verse." 8°. Lond. 17.58. "The Art of Angling: Eight Dialogues, in Verse." 8°. "The Universal Angler; or that art improved in all its parts, especially in Fly-fishing." 8°. Lond. 1766. "The Complete Sportsman, or Country Gentleman's Recreation. By Thomas Fairfax." 8°. Lond. [P. 123 to 173, on Angling.]} The Complete Fisherman; or Universal Angler." 8°. Lond. ... 2d edit. 8°. Lond. 1778. The Angler's Complete Assistant, being an Epitome of the whole Art of Angling. 4th edit. 4°. Lond. "The True Art of Angling." 12°. Lond. 1770. "Translation of a Letter from the Hanover Magazine, N°. 23, March 21, 1763. Giving an account of a method to breed Fish to advantage." 8. Lond. 1778. "The Angler's Museum, or the whole art of Float and Fly-Fishing, by Thomas Shirley. 12o. Lond. 1784. .. 2d edit. 12°. Lond. 3d édit. 12°. Lond. The Fisherman: or Art of Angling made easy; by Guiniad Charfey, Esq. 8°. Lond. 2d edit. 8°. Lond. "The North-Country Angler; or the Art of Angling as practised in the Northern Counties of England." 8°. Lond. 1786. 2d edit. 3d edit. 8. Leeds. 1800. "A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling: by Thomas Best, Gent." 8°. Lond. 1787. 8th edit. Lond. 1808. 9th edit. 8°. Lond. 1810. "An Essay on the Right of Angling in the River Thames, and in all the other public Navigable Rivers." 8°. Reading. "A Letter to a Proprietor of a Fishery in the River Thames. In which an attempt is made to shew in whom the Right of Fishing in public streams now resides." 2d edit. 8°. Reading. [1787.] "The Natural History of Fishes and Serpents," by R. Brookes. To which is added an Appendix, containing the whole Art of Float and Fly-Fishing." 8°. Lond. 1790. "The Young Angler's Pocket-Companion, by Ralph Cole, Gent." 12°. Lond. 1795. "The Modern Angler, being a practical Treatise on the Art of Fishing, &c. in a Series of Letters to a friend, by Robert Salter, Esq." 12°. Lond. "Angling in all its Branches, reduced to a Complete Science in three parts, by Samuel Taylor, Gent. 8°. Lond. 1800. "Practical Observations on Angling in the River Trent. 8°. Newark. 1801. Every Man his own Fisherman: by Thomas Smith. 24°. Lond. "The Driffield Angler, in two parts; by Alexander Mackintosh of Great Driffield, Yorkshire." 8°. Gainsborough. "The Angler's Pocket-Book, to which is prefixed Nobbe's celebrated Treatise on the Art of Trolling." 8°. Norw. Treatise affixed. 8°. Lond. affixed. 8°. Lond. 1805. 2d edit. with Nobbes's 3d edit. with the same "The New and Complete Angler, or Universal Fisherman," by Richard Pollard, Esq. of Clapton Middlesex. 8°. Lond. 1802. "Rural Sports, by W. B. Daniel. Vol. II. p. 1 to 373 relates to Fish and Fishing: principally Angling. 4°. Lond. 1802. VOL. II. BB "The "The Kentish Angler, or the young Fisherman's Instructor: shewing the Nature and Properties of Fish which are generally angled for in Kent. 12°. Canterb. 1804. "The Complete Angler's Vade Mecum: being a perfect Code of Instruction on the above pleasing Science; &c. by Capt. T. Williamson, (Author of the Wild Sports of India.) 8°. Lond. 1808. "The Angler's Manual, or concise Lessons of Experience, which the Proficient in the delightful Recreation of Angling will not despise, and the Learners will find the Advantage of practising: containing useful Instructions on every approved method of Angling, and particularly on the management of the Hand and Rod in each method. 4°. Liverp. 1808. H. E. Spare your good. [Wood-cut of a lady sitting up in bed, apparently addressing a man and woman seated by the bed side.] 4to. containing one sheet, black letter. (Colophon.) Here endeth a lytell treatyse very profitable for every yonge man and yonge woman called Syrs spare your good. Imprinted at London in Poules churche yarde by Anthony Kytson. A fragment of this publication, printed by Wynken de Worde, has already been noticed in Censura Literaria, IX. 373. The present communication will enable the possessors of that work to fill up the defective lines in the extract there given by Mr. HASLEWOOD, and to the general reader the following short account will perhaps be acceptable. It begins at page 2. "Euen aboute the moneth of Maye As |