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181 1. It contained a list of between seventy and eighty- 

 works ; and, aided by a revised copy with MS. additions 

 (now in the Denison collection), Mr. Pickering, in 1836, 

 published his BibliotJieca Piscatoria, increasing the number 

 of works to 180, with an intimation that his catalogue would 

 "be found more extensive than any hitherto published." 

 J. Wilson, brother of Professor Wilson of the " Noctes," 

 published a catalogue in 1840, but it contained only 100 

 works, as he confined his enumeration very strictly to those 

 which dealt only with angling. The next great advance in 

 piscatorial bibliography was made in 1847 by the Rev. 

 G. W. Bethune, who, though hailing from the United States, 

 we must for the nonce consider an Englishman. In his 

 edition of Izaak Walton he gives a List of such Works as 

 relate to Fish and Fishing ; and these number 300, exclu- 

 sive of those on ichthyology, but inclusive of Greek and Latin 

 authors who give descriptions of fishing, some of which will 

 be quoted in the next chapter. The next important cata- 

 logue is that appended by Mr. J. Russell Smith, the pub- 

 lisher of Soho Square, to Wi-Bkey's Angling Literattire in 

 1856. It was professedly based on the catalogues above 

 mentioned, and excluded works " which only treat inciden- 

 tally on angling ; " but it claimed to be " a complete list 

 of English writers on ichthyology." The number of works 

 mentioned is 264. By the way, it may here be mentioned 

 that amongst the books on angling belonging to the writer 

 of these notes, he has a reprint of the Angler's Progress, by 

 H. Boaz, written in 1789. This reprint was published by 

 J. H. Burn, of Maiden Lane, in 1820; and in it is the fol- 

 lowing advertisement : " Preparing for the Press, and 

 speedily will be published, A Bibliographical List of all 

 the books written either for the improvement in or that 

 are descriptive of the Art of Angling." The writer has 



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