2 LITERATURE OF SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 



fishing and fish, of which a large proportion deal almost 

 exclusively with the subject of angling. One Rittershusius, 

 as far back as 1597, in the Prolegomena of an edition of 

 Oppian, gives a Catalogue of those who besides Oppiau have 

 written sometJmig about fish ; and then, after a long gap, we 

 have, printed at Altenburg in 1750, Kreysig's list of ancient 

 writers on hunting, fishing, and other rural amusements. 

 Enslin followed in the same line in 1823, and Engelmann 

 ten years later ; both their works being published at Berlin. 

 In 1842 Schneider published, also at Berlin, a continuation 

 of the labours of the two authors last mentioned. But of 

 continental contributors to this branch of literary knowledge 

 D. Mulder Bosgoed, librarian of the Rotterdam Library, 

 stands foremost. He published his Bibliotheca Ichthyologia 

 et Piscatoj'ia in 1874, a work of great comprehensiveness 

 and accuracy, which, up to its date, is a very complete 

 bibliography of angling, and contains notices of books on 

 every conceivable subject connected with fish and fishing, 

 and especially of those published on the Continent. 



But it is with the piscatorial bibliographers of our country 

 that we are more immediately concerned. Several of these 

 to a great extent confined themselves to compiling cata- 

 logues of books on angling proper, but others have taken 

 a more comprehensive line. In an interleaved copy of 

 C. Bowlker's (of Ludlow) work on angling (1806) was 



found a MS. List of Angling Books, by White of 



Crickhowell, whose library was dispersed by auction about 

 the year 1806; and this is probably the first catalogue of 

 its kind made in this country. It is now in the Denison 

 collection, but is of no great intrinsic value. The first 

 of any real importance, entitled A Catalogue of Books on 

 Angling; zvith some brief Notices of several of their 

 Authors, compiled by Sir Henry Ellis, was published in 



