The Secrets of Angling
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The Secrets of Angling was a book written by John Dennys. It was the earliest English poetical treatise on fishing, first published in 1613 in London. A didactic pastoral poem in 3 books, in the style
Title page of first edition (1613)in the Bodleian, shelfmark 8vo.D 15 Art.
Title page of 3rd edition, 1630, cropped fore-edge and foot. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.
Title page 4th edition, 1652. Cropped at fore-edge.
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Wick, Gloucestershire
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Wick is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. It is the main settlement in the civil parish of Wick and Abson. The population of this civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 1,989.
The Secrets of Angling
…thought to be the first printed description of a reel: The third verse of Book 1 refers to the rivers Boyd and Avon, and the villages of Doynton and Wick: The woodcut in the 1613 edition title represents an angler with a fish on his hook, and the motto, "Well fayre the pleasure that brings such treasure…
St Bartholomew's church
Wick Quarry