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Berners, Dame Juliana. A Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle. Chelsea Ashendene Press 1903, 1903.

Price: US$1705.81 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: edition limited to 150 copies, 125 of which are for sale. [2], 48pp. Octavo. Full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Vellum has dried a bit since binding, resulting in some bowing of boards and a slight waviness to text block. Bookplate of E Bernulf Clegg to front pastedown, else internally tight and clean. near fine A gorgeous example of fine letterpress printing from the Ashendene Press, founded and operated by Charles Henry St. John Hornby in Chelsea, England, from 1895 - 1915 and 1920 - 1935. This edition is a faithful reprint of Berners' Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle from the Boke of St. Albans of 1496. With seven woodcuts, including the famous scene of an angler catching a fish. The bookplate is likely of the same Bernulf Clegg known for his correspondence with Oscar Wilde about Wilde's famous "all art is quite useless" quotation from the Picture of Dorian Grey. A beautiful, fine press edition of the first printed book on fishing, limited to 150 copies on paper of which 125 were for sale.

Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada

Berners, Dame Juliana. A Treatyse of Fisshynge With an Angle. Ashendene Press, Chelsea, London, 1903.

Price: US$2538.01 + shipping

Description: 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 48pp. Full page woodcut and 6 small woodcuts. 'Set in type by St John Hornby and Meysey Turton & printed by the fist named at the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea in the year 1903, after the text of the Boke of St Albans emprynted at Westmestre by Wynkyn the Woede the yere of thycarnanacion of our lorde MCCClxxxxvi'.

Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom

[ASHENDENE PRESS]; BERNERS, Dame Juliana.. A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle.. Chelsea Ashendene Press, 1903.

Price: US$2722.50 + shipping

Description: 8vo, edition limited to 150 copies of which 125 for sale, [2], 48 pp., original vellum gilt, stext slightly wavy else an excellent example. A lovely copy of the fine Ashendene Press edition of the first printed book on fishing. Ashendene Bibliography, XVI.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

[Ashendene Press] Berners (Dame Juliana). A TREATYSE OF FYSSHYNGE WYTH AN ANGLE. Chelsea The Ashendene Press 1903, 1903.

Price: US$4235.00 + shipping

Description: One of 150 copies, printed in 'Subiaco' type, with one initial in red, on Japanese paper. With the famous woodcut frontispiece of a man fishing and decorations ‘after the text of Wynkyn de Worde in 'The Boke of St. Alban's empynted at Westmester in the yere of thyncarnacion of our Lorde mcccclxxxxvi (1496’ by St. John Hornby and Meysey Turton". Fine textual illustrations throughout. 8vo, bound in the original full limp vellum. 48 pp. An especially fine copy, beautifully preserved. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST PLEASING BOOKS PRINTED AT THE PRESS. This work reprints in "exact" facsimile the first printing of any book on fishing ever printed in England. The interest of the "Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle" lies not only in its priority in the field of fishing literature, but also because it has served as a literary quarry to many succeeding writers on fishing, and it also established a high moral value for the craft of fishing and is responsible for "having assigned in popular estimation to the angler his meditative and gentle nature". The Renaissance designed plates are famous for showing the first illustration of a person fishing with hook and line, and for the additional cuts throughout the text depicting hooks, all manners of fishing tools, types of lines for floating or sinking, and various and sundry other fishing devices. Juliana Berners (or Barnes or Bernes) (b. 15th century), English writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, is said to have been prioress of Sopwell nunnery near St Albans. Her book on fishing was the first known book on fishing by a woman. She was probably brought up at court and, after she adopted the religious life, she still retained her love of hawking, hunting and fishing, and her passion for field sports. She is the supposed author of the work generally known as the Boke of St Albans, of which the first and rarest edition was printed in 1486 by an unknown schoolmaster at St Albans. The only clue to the authorship of the Treatise, and the documentary evidence of her, is an attribution at the end of the original 1496 book which reads "Explicit Dam Julyans Barnes in her boke of huntying." Her name was changed by Wynkyn de Worde to "Dame Julyans Bernes."

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.