page_title: Book of Saint Albans
section_title: Angling
hierarchical_section_title: Book of Saint Albans / Angling
caption_attribution_description: English: 'Fyshynge wyth an Angle', from Book of Saint Albans
context_page_description: The Book of Saint Albans is the common title of a book printed in 1486 that is a compilation of matters relating to the interests of the time of a gentleman. It was the last of eight books printed by the St Albans Press in England. It is also known by titles that are more accurate, such as "The Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Blasing of Arms". The printer is sometimes called the Schoolmaster Printer. This edition credits the book, or at least the part on hunting, to Juliana Berners as there is an attribution at the end of the 1486 edition reading: "Explicit Dam Julyans Barnes in her boke of huntyng."
  It contains three essays, on hawking, hunting, and heraldry. It became popular, and went through many editions, quickly acquiring an additional essay on angling. The section on heraldry contains many coats-of-arms printed in six colours, the first colour printing in England. During the 16th century the work was very popular, and was many times reprinted. It was edited by Gervase Markham in 1595 as The Gentleman's Academic.
  Scholarship on the sources of the Book indicates that little in it was original.
context_section_description: A work added to the 1496 edition of the Book, was the Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, on angling. It is an earlier collection of practical advice for fishing; and was drawn on by Isaak Walton. Among recognised sources for Walton's Compleat Angler are works of William Gryndall (1596) and Leonard Mascall (1590), both of which are close derivatives of the Treatyse.
caption: Reproduction of a woodcut from Wynkyn de Worde's edition of 1496
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