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West Midlands Responses - Book IV, Part 9
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book IV, Part 9: Reptiles. Includes questions IV.9.1 Worms - IV.9.11 Herrings.
Coarse fish, with notes on taxidermy, fishing in the lower Thames, etc
Wheeley, Charles H
[1897]
On cover: Routledge's country books.
The contemplative and practical angler : being a complete treatise on that pleasing and healthful recreation, with all the most approved methods of angling, &c.& c.; prognostications of the weather; and a variety of other useful information never before published
Wells, Joseph (1855-1929)
1842
Second ed., improved, published in 1853 under title: The temperance fishing book. Errors in paging: p. iv followed by p. [ix]. Temperance fishing book.
The secrets of angling : teaching the choicest tools, baits, and seasons, for the taking of any fish in pond or river, practised and familiarly opened in three books (v.1)
Dennys, John (1609); Piscator
1885
Includes bibliographical references (v.2, p.63-64).
The secrets of angling : teaching the choicest tools, baits, and seasons, for the taking of any fish in pond or river, practised and familiarly opened in three books (v.2)
Dennys, John (1609); Piscator
1885
Includes bibliographical references (v.2, p.63-64).
Arthur Ransome Archive
Ransome, Arthur (1884-1967)
1847-2000
Comprises: 1) literary manuscripts and typescripts, including Ransome's original illustrations for his children's books, fishing essays, sailing notes, drafts for his autobiography, diaries, notebooks...
The innocent epicure, or, The art of angling : a poem
J. S (fl. 1697); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715)
1697
Preface signed: N. Tate. Published later, 1741, with title: Angling. Sig. A8, preceding p. 1, bears Playford's booklist and Brown's fishing tackle advertisement. A paraphrase of Horace's Epistle...
The temperance fishing book, or, The contemplative angler : being a new and complete general treatise on that pleasing and healthful recreation, the art of angling : containing a description of all the various kinds of fish, with full instructions how to angle for them; the best baits for that purpose; how to procure them; the best times to angle; prognostications of the weather; and much other useful information never published in any other treatise
Wells, Joseph (1855-1929)
1853
Previous ed. published under title: The contemplative and practical angler. Contemplative angler. Cover title: Practical angler.
Sound Recording, South Ayrshire
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy
23 December 1973
Rob Gibson, recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career and the changes observed in the fishing industry; mussel beds; mussel baits and baiting of fishing lines, tools used; fishing boa...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T
1958-1963
[Collector announcement]; William Willey, recorded by Stanley Ellis in Mullion on the 30 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books];...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1975
Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on the 5 July 1975 , sings 'Cod Banging', and talks about verses added, singing style and Percy Webb; sings and comments on 'Paradise Street'; learning to play the ...
Tiddlers, or, The art of fishing for sticklebacks : a paper read before The Sette of Odd Volumes at Apothecaries' Hall,... June 3rd, 1958
Lister, Raymond (1919-); Sette of Odd Volumes (Book club)
1958
"This edition is limited to 133 copies...."