THE FLYFISHERS': An anthology to mark the centenary of The Flyfishers' Club 1884 - 1984. Written by members.

THE FLYFISHERS': An anthology to mark the centenary of The Flyfishers' Club 1884 - 1984. Written by members.

FISHERS' CRAFT AND LETTERED ART: TRACTS ON FISHING FROM THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES. By Richard C. Hoffmann. (Paperback).

FISHERS' CRAFT AND LETTERED ART: TRACTS ON FISHING FROM THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES. By Richard C. Hoffmann. (Paperback).

FISHING FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. By William Radcliffe.

(1921) 1926 2nd edition. 8vo (158 x 234mm). Ppxxii,494. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Binding B. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, upper board plain.

This book "is, as far as I can discover, the first attempt to examine classical and other ancient writers on Fishing from the standpoint of one who has not only been a practical Pisciculturist for many years and an Angler all his life, but has also been taught (though somewhat forgotten) his Greek and Latin". The chapters are divided into the following sections: Greek and Roman fishing, including - Homer, contest between Homer and Hesiod, the dolphin, the tunny, Plato, the two Plinys, Martial, was the rod jointed?, Plutarch, Cleopatra's fishing, Aelian, Ausonias, Salar and Fario, first mention of the pike, infatuation for fish; Egyptian fishing, including - The Nile is Egypt, tackle, sacred fish, fisheries, attempted correlation of the price of fish then and now, fishing with the hair of the dead; Assyrian fishing, including - no rod, fishing methods, earliest recorded contract of fishing, fish-gods, first instance of poaching, magic auguries; Jewish fishing, including - rod not employed, fish with and without scales, methods of fishing, vivaria, the fish of Tobias, demonic possession, fish of Moses, Solomon's ring; Chinese fishing.
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Author Radcliffe (William). (1856-1938).
Book Code 8975
ISBN B000YCICOA.
Book Description Quite foxed, ownership inscription, bookplate of angling author Peter Wheat.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1926
Publisher John Murray.
Place London.