 Beloe, speaking of the edition of 1652, says, "Perhaps there does not exist in the circle of English literature a rarer book than this." He seems to have ignored the former editions — though how this could have been with Lauson's " Augmented " in the...  The Fishermans Magazine and Review - Page 3261865Full view - About this book
 | William Beloe - Bibliography - 1807 - 468 pages
...friends to make ; AIM} their redoubled shames came on, As they dyd brew to bake. &c. &c. JO. DAVORS. PERHAPS there does not exist in the circle of English Literature a rarer book than this which I am about to describe. It is quoted no wherebut by Isaac Walton, in his Complete Angler, where... | |
 | William Beloe - Bibliographical literature - 1807 - 1054 pages
...friends to make ; And their redoubled shames came on. As they dyd brew to bake. &c. &c. JO. DAVORS. PERHAPS there does not exist in the circle of English Literature a rarer book than this which I am about to describe. It is quoted no where but by Isaac Walton, in his Complete Angler, where... | |
 | Great Britain - 1819 - 550 pages
...Broughton." Of the work of " Jo. Davers," entitled the " Secrets of Angling," it is observed, " that there does not exist in the circle of English literature a rarer book." It has been ascribed to the pen of the celebrated Dr. Donne. A Poetical Tract, lent by Mr. George Chalmers,... | |
 | Thomas Boosey - Fishing - 1835 - 328 pages
...short advertisement, and an index. SYo. Lond. 1811. (a hundred copies taken off separately.) * Beloe says, " Perhaps there does not exist in the circle of English Literature a rarer book than this. — Sir John Hawkins confessed he could never get a sight of it." — Anecd. of Literature, vol. ii.... | |
 | John Russell Smith - Fishing - 1856 - 62 pages
...short advertisement, and an index. 8vo, Lond. 1811. (A hundred copies taken off separately.) Beloe says, " Perhaps there does not exist in the circle of English Literature a rarer book than this.— Sir John Hawkins confessed he could never get a sight of it." — Anecd. of Literature, vol. ii, p.... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Fishing - 1856 - 378 pages
...short advertisement, and an index. 8ro, Lond. 1811. (A hundred copies taken off separately.) Beloe says, " Perhaps there does not exist in the circle of English Literature a rarer book than this. — Sir John Hawkins confessed he could never get a sight of it." — Anecd. of Literature, vol. ii,... | |
 | John Russell Smith - Fishing - 1856 - 60 pages
...short advertisement, and an index. 8vo, Lond. 1811. (A. hundred copies taken off separately.) Beloe says, " Perhaps there does not exist in the circle of English Literature a rarer book than this.—Sir John Hawkins confessed he could never get a sight of it."—Anecd. of Literature, vol.... | |
 | Thomas Westwood - Fish culture - 1861 - 88 pages
...and also in the " British Bibliographer " (a hundred copies of each were taken off separately). Beloe says, " Perhaps there does not exist in the circle of English literature a rarer book than this. Sir John Hawkins confessed he could never get a sight of it." In its poetry it ranks high, and indeed... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1869 - 634 pages
...Angler, acknowledges that he never even could get a sight of this book. Beloe, speaking of the fourth edition of 1652, says: "Perhaps there does not exist...literature a rarer book than this." He seems to have entirely ignored the three previous editions; though how he could have done so it is impossible for... | |
 | Thomas Westwood - Fishing - 1873 - 70 pages
...(Hewlett among them) it iß ascribed, without sufficient authority, to Donne and Daviea " — TW " Perhaps there does not exist in the circle of English literature a rarer book than this. Sir Jno. Hawküis confessed he could never get a bight of it." — BKLOK. 129 DE MASSAS, M. Cн. LA... | |
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