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Author: J. S. (John Smith)
Title: The true art of angling, or, The best and speediest way of taking all sorts of fresh-water fish with the worm, fly paste, and other baits, in their proper seasons how to know the haunts of fish, and angle for them in all waters and weathers, at the top, middle, and bottom, baiting of the ground, and night baits, oyls, and oyntments, baits natural and atificial : the several ways of angling, to make oyl of asper, and many rare secrets never before made publick, containing the whole body of angling, and mystery of a compleat angler / by J.S., gent., an brother of the angle.
Print source: The true art of angling, or, The best and speediest way of taking all sorts of fresh-water fish with the worm, fly paste, and other baits, in their proper seasons how to know the haunts of fish, and angle for them in all waters and weathers, at the top, middle, and bottom, baiting of the ground, and night baits, oyls, and oyntments, baits natural and atificial : the several ways of angling, to make oyl of asper, and many rare secrets never before made publick, containing the whole body of angling, and mystery of a compleat angler / by J.S., gent., an brother of the angle.
J. S. (John Smith)

London: Printed for G. Conyers ... and John Sprint ..., 1696.
Notes:
Third to eighth editions (1704-1730?) have title: The compleat fisher ... ninth to eleventh editions (1740-1750?): The complete fisher ... twelfth edition (1770): The true art of angling ...
Illustrated frontispiece.
Imperfect: pages cropped, stained and tightly bound with loss of print.
Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
Subject terms:
Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
URL: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A62402.0001.001
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Table of Contents
Instructions for rightly pre∣paring Angling Tackle, as Rods, Lines, Hooks, Floats, Plummets, and other matters required to accomplish the An∣gler, &c.