LITERATURE 



SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FISHING LITERATURE — CATA- 

 LOGUES — LIBRARIES, ETC. — AUTHORS ON THE 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FISHING. 



The bibliography of Sea and River Fishing, and especially 

 of the latter, in itself covers such an enormous field that 

 only a brief glance at it is here possible. 



The various " Catalogues " of books which have from 

 time to time been published, as containing all or most of 

 the known works on piscatory subjects, first claim attention. 

 For several generations bibliophilists and bibliographers — ■ 

 several of whom have had more or less interest in pisca- 

 tory pursuits — have been very busy in their researches into 

 angling literature, and the catalogues of such literature 

 have gradually been growing in magnitude and biblio- 

 graphical importance. The last out-put of labour from this 

 literary mine has been the BibliotJieca Piscatoria by Messrs. 

 T. Westwood and T. Satchell, a viagimm opus in every sense 

 of the wordq^and in itself a history of angling literature. 

 From this it may be gathered that there are in existence 

 about a score of general catalogues of books relating to 



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