LUKE HONEY’S Cabinet of Curiosities

‘I have laid aside business, and gone a’ fishing’. So wrote Izaak Walton in The Compleat Angler, first published in 1653. Sitting at my desk, piled high with books, papers, and a jumble of computer equipment, I can’t think of a more appealing sentiment.

The Victorian and Edwardian gentry were keen on fishing, and they adored their ‘stuffed’ fish too; the perfect way