The fisherman: or, The art of angling made easy. Containing the most approved methods in use for fishing or angling for pike, trout, salmon, grailing, carp, tench, bream, barbel, perch, pope, roach, dace, gudgeon, smelt, eel, flounder, mullet, loach, minnow. &c. &c. &c. Together with their seasons of spawning, hours of biting, and whatever else is necessary to be known by an expert angler. Also, directions in the choice, management, and application of the tackle, baits, &c. in the different seasons of the year, and for all the various and peculiar modes of angling. Likewise, remarks on the utility of fish ponds; with their most profitable formation and disposition precisely and carefully pointed out. To which are prefixed, an account of several curious methods of fishing practised in Europe, and elsewhere; and a description of all the principal rivers, lakes , &c. in England, their rise, confluences, and particular kinds of fish produced in them, in order to direct the angler with the gre

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  • The fisherman: or, The art of angling made easy. Containing the most approved methods in use for fishing or angling for pike, trout, salmon, grailing, carp, tench, bream, barbel, perch, pope, roach, dace, gudgeon, smelt, eel, flounder, mullet, loach, minnow. &c. &c. &c. Together with their seasons of spawning, hours of biting, and whatever else is necessary to be known by an expert angler. Also, directions in the choice, management, and application of the tackle, baits, &c. in the different seasons of the year, and for all the various and peculiar modes of angling. Likewise, remarks on the utility of fish ponds; with their most profitable formation and disposition precisely and carefully pointed out. To which are prefixed, an account of several curious methods of fishing practised in Europe, and elsewhere; and a description of all the principal rivers, lakes , &c. in England, their rise, confluences, and particular kinds of fish produced in them, in order to direct the angler with the gre
  • Compleat fisherman
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Imprint
London : printed for J. Dixwell, No. 148, St. Martin's Lane, near Charing Cross, [1785?]
Added name
Smeeton, George, active 1800-1828.
Publication year
1785
ESTC No.
N18837
Grub Street ID
8266
Description
iv,146,[2]p. ; 8°.
Note
"A mere verbatim appropriation, without acknowledgment, from [James] Saunders' 'Complete fisherman'" (NUC); Saunders' 'The compleat fisherman' was first published in 1724

Below imprint in square brackets: Price two shillings and sixpence

The words: "Pike ... minnow, &c. &c. &c." in the title are printed in four columns, divided by double rules

Guiniad Charfy is a pseudonym for George Smeeton, printer and compiler

Entry in 'The Monthly Review' for 1785, vol.72, p.68. Cf. Google Books (06/2012); James Dixwell died in 1788. Cf. British Book Trade Index

With a final advertisement leaf.
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Publication date from NUC