A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle | book by Berners | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

• In Dame Juliana Berners
  …English prioress and author of A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496), the earliest known volume on sport fishing. Berners’s work predates Englishman Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler (1653), the best-known example of early angling literature, by approximately 150 years.
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history of fishing

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  In fishing: Early history
  printing of Dame Juliana Berners’s A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496) as a part of the second edition of The Boke of St. Albans. Berners’s work was evidently based on earlier Continental treatises dating to the 14th century, but virtually no records of these previous writings are known.…
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