Auteur: Marjorie Swann

A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: ant …

‘I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.’A unique celebration of the English countryside and the most famous book on angling ever published, Walton’s Compleat Angler …

‘I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.’A unique celebration of the English countryside and the most famous book on angling ever published, Walton’s Compleat Angler …