THE ORIGINS OF ANGLING BY JOHN McDONALD EASTON PRESS COLLECTORS EDITION 1997

THE ORIGINS OF ANGLING BY JOHN McDONALD

Assisted by

SHERMAN HUHN AND DWIGHT WEBSTER WITH PAINTINGS BY JOHN LANGLEY HOWARD 

&

THE TREATISE OF FISHING WITH AN ANGLE  

(ATTRIBUTED TO DAME JULIANA BERNERS)

EASTON PRESS COLLECTORS EDITION 1997

"The principal justification of this book is that The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle, the first writing on modern sport of fishing, has long been out of print. As it was the first, and no better essay on fishing has been written, it should always be in print."

John McDonald

 Contents include:

1 The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle in History Modernised Text of the Earliest Surviving Version of the Treatise (From the Manuscript: 1450) Modernised Text of the First Printed Version of the Treatise (from the Second Book of St. Albans: 1496) The Legend of Dame Juliana The First Modern Trout Flies

2 Facsimile, with Transcript, of the Yale Wagstaff Manuscript of the Treatise Description and History of the Manuscript Facsimile, with Transcript, of the First Printed Text of the Treatise 3 Prologue to Master of Game Prologue to The Art of Falconry Text of William Burton in Which Dame Juliana Was First Identified as a Nun and Noblewoman

Bound in genuine leather, with gold tooling to covers and spine, moire silk endpapers, silk marker ribbon, all edges gilt, 273 pages. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition