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Sale 235: The Angling Library of Jeffrey Norton (#235) 01/24/2002 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #88 A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle..., Being a Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book on the Subject of Fishing Printed in England by Wynkyn De Worde at Westminster in 1496.

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Title:

A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle..., Being a Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book on the Subject of Fishing Printed in England by Wynkyn De Worde at Westminster in 1496.

Author:

Berners, Dame Juliana

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Elliot Stock

Date Published:

[1880]

Description:

xiv, [blank leaf], [23] pp. Intro. by Rev. M.G. Watkins. 10¼x7¼, period quarter vellum & boards, morocco spine label, original parchment wrappers bound in.

Facsimile of the fishing portion of "...the manere of hawkynge and huntynge," published in 1496, being the first book to treat of fishing printed in England. The last name of the author is given variously as Barnes, Bernes or Berners; she was supposed to have been a daughter of James Berners of Roding Berners in the county of Essex (a favorite of Richard the Second) who was beheaded in 1388.

Condition:

Some shelf wear, small nick to paper where it joins the vellum on front cover, spine and label rubbed; some foxing to the endpapers, else very good.

Item#:

110859
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