Note {7} — FISHING THEN AND NOW

I have examined all the Angling works of the period known to me. Gilbert’s Angler’s Delight (1676) is a mere pamphlet; William Gilbert, gent., pilfers from Walton, without naming him, and has literally nothing original or meritorious. The book is very scarce. My own copy is ‘uncut,’ but incomplete, lacking the directions for fishing ‘in Hackney River.’ Gervase Markham, prior to Walton, is a compiler rather than an original authority on angling.