In 1486, a little more than a decade after William Caxton introduced printing to England, the Schoolmaster Printer of St Albans produced the first folio edition of The book of hawking, hunting, and blasing of arms. Wynkyn de Worde reprinted this compilation of hunting, hawking, and heraldic treatises in folio in 1496, adding to it a treatise on angling (see fig. 23.1). Having so little information about the financial workings of the earliest English presses, we cannot speak, except in qualified terms, about a ‘market’ for this or other printed editions of practical treatises in late fifteenth-century England. Still, we can reasonably assume that such rapid reprinting of the work attests to an audience eager for access to works of practical writings. Buttressing that conclusion is a colophon in the 1496 edition, in which De Worde explains why he included The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle within the larger volume, rather than issuing it in a separate edition.