4 LITERATURE OF SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 



never seen any notice of the actual publication of this 

 " List," and probably it was never printed. Mr. John 

 Bartlett, of Boston, U.S., has published a most interest- 

 ing catalogue of his own valuable collection of books on 

 fish and fishing. 



We now come to what may be called a new epoch in the 

 history of angling catalogues. In 1861, Mr. T. Westwood 

 — who wields the fishing-rod as ably as he does the pen — 

 presented the literary and angling world with A Nezv Bib- 

 liotheca Piscatoria ; or a General Catalogue of Angling and 

 Fishing Literature, with Biographical Notes and Dates. 

 This was a more ambitious attempt in its line than any 

 which preceded it, and showed a marked advance in its 

 field of research. The author laid the literature of all lands 

 under contribution ; and it was to his labours that Herr 

 Bosgoed, above mentioned, was to a very great extent 

 indebted, as he himself acknowledges, in the compilation 

 of his catalogue, in which nearly 600 English works are 

 enumerated. 



But it would be superfluous to dwell on the contents of 

 Mr. Westwood's book, as the new and long-expected Bib- 

 liotheca Piscatoria, already referred to, the joint work of. 

 Mr. Westwood and Mr. T. Satchell, has been published 

 within the last few months. As Mr. Westwood's previous 

 book, like Aaron's rod which swallowed up the serpents of 

 the Egyptian magicians, had swallowed up all previous 

 catalogues, and had in turn been assimilated by Herr 

 Bosgoed, so now the last Bibliotheca Piscatoria has incor- 

 porated all its predecessors in this and all other countries. 

 It is certainly one of the most interesting and masterful 

 works in the whole range of bibliographical literature ; and 

 though of necessity, when we consider its subject-matter, 

 there must still remain addeiula et corrigenda, it may be 



