Bill:
Another web site with online versions of two of the oldest fishing
books is Renascence Editions:

Dame Julia Berner's A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle is generally
regarded as the first angling book written in English - (1496)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear...s/berners.html


Barker's Delight, or The Art of Angling - was written around the same
time as Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler (1650s)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/barker1.html

- Henry
www.fishingclassics.com