ASHENDENE PRESS: BERNERS, Dame Juliana.

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A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. First Ashendene edition, one of 150 copies on paper in Subiaco type. This was the first prose work to appear in the Ashendene Subiaco type, created by Emery Walker and Sydney Cockerell from the first roman type used by Sweynheym and Pannartz at the press they established in 1465 at Subiaco near Rome.The original text is attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, who was a noblewoman and prioress of the Sopwell Nunnery near St Albans. This treatise on fishing was first printed in the 1496 edition of The Boke of Saint Albans printed by Wynken de Worde. Considered one of the earliest known English texts on recreational fishing, it significantly influenced angling literature.

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