THE SEVENTH EDITION. A CONCISE TREATISE ON THE ART OF ANGLING, Confirmed by actual Experience; INTERSPERSED WITH SEVERAL NEW AND RECENT DISCOVERIES; THE WHOLE FORMING A COMPLETE MUSEUM, FOR THE LOVERS OF THAT PLEASING AND RATIONAL RECREATION. BY THOMAS BEST, A new Edition, carefully corrected. As in successive course the seasons roll, GAY. LONDON: Printed by T. Plummer, Seething-Lane, Tower-Street FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. NO.4, STATIONERS COURT, LUDGATE HILL, 1807. ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. THE credit of this treatise is so fully established by the approbation the former editions have met with, that it would be quite superfluous to say any thing more in its favour. In the present edition, which has been revised with the greatest attention, I have been careful to avoid all newfangled rules, but have endeavoured to render those which I have before laid down more conspicuous and intelligent. Most of the late publications on this pleasing and rational recreation may allure by their novelty for a while, but are in general so vague and full of error, that, like summer insects, pereunt et imputantur, they must perish and be thought on no more. Hoping B the present edition will be well received by all judicious and discriminating Anglers, I shall conclude with observing, -Si quid novisti rectius istis Or, "Better precepts if you can impart, 1 AM, THE PUBLIC'S MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, THOMAS BEST. * Tottenham Hale, 1804. * Excellent reception for anglers at Brother Patrick's in that village. |