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  EEBO-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  The art of angling wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation.
  Date of publication:
  1653
  

  Author(s):

  Barker, Thomas, fl. 1651.
  Description:
  Attributed to Thomas Barker. cf. DNB. Also issued as part 4 of The country-mans recreation, 1654. Beginning with the edition of 1657, title became 'Barker's delight'. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  EEBO-TCP (Phase 2)
  
  The country-mans recreation, or The art of [brace] planting, graffing, and gardening, [brace] in three books. The first declaring divers waies of planting, and graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or plant with the root, and without the root; to sow or set pepins or curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your grafts and cions, to help barren and sick trees, to kill worms and vermin, and to preserve and keep fruit; how to plant and proin your vines, and to gather and presse your grape; to cleanse and mosse your trees, to make your cider and perry, with many other secret practises which shall appear in the table following. The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof, ... with some directions for tabaco. Whereunto is added, The expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art, ... hereunto is likewise added the Art of angling.
  Date of publication:
  1654
  

  Author(s):

  Barker, Thomas, fl. 1651. ; Barker, Thomas, fl. 1651.
  Description:
  The words "planting, graffing, and gardening" are enclosed in brackets on title page. "A perfect platform of a hop-garden" (also published separately as Wing S946) has separate title page dated 1653; register and pagination ...
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