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color by Richard Doyle and many other illustrations 

 sketched out in pencil. This interesting book was 

 bought by Thomas Satchell in 1885 at an exhibition of 

 illustrators work in Bond St., London, and contains his 

 book plate, a receipt for 50 guineas which he paid for 

 it and an insurance receipt for the same amount on the 

 book while on exhibition. 



"The Fly Fishers Guide," by Geo. C. Bainbridge, Lon- 

 don, 1816, is the author's own copy and contains his 

 book-plate. It is one of ten copies in quarto cloth which 

 were issued for presents and colored with greater care. 



Another work, of which the owner has never seen an- 

 other copy, is "The Fishing Costume" of Hartlepool, 

 London, 1819, a very scarce book with six most charm- 

 ingly engraved and colored plates. 



Speaking of "The Genteel Recreation or The Pleasure 

 of Angling, a poem," by John Whitney, London, 1700, 

 and reprinted in 1820, "Bibliotheca Piscatoria" says, 

 "100 copies were reprinted, copies of it are rare. The 

 original edition does not appear to have been published." 

 The library owns a copy and there is another copy in 

 the New York Public Library. The library owns a copy 

 also of the 1820 reprint. At the sale of the Heckscher 

 collection the only book that Bernard Quaritch, the 

 famous bookseller of London, bid on, was : "Certaine ex- 

 periments concerning fish and fruite: practiced by John 

 Taverner, Gentleman," London, 1600. That copy is in 

 the library and is the only one the owner knows of in 

 this country. 



Another volume that seems to have almost disappeared 

 is the "Ichthyologia Ohiensis ; or, natural history of the 

 fishes inhabiting the River Ohio, " Lexington, Kentucky, 

 1820. Of this book only eight copies are known to sur- 

 vive, one of which is in the library. 



It would be possible to go on indefinitely, picking out 

 books here and there that are unique or scarce, for it 

 has been the policy of the library, whenever possible, 

 to obtain a presentation copy of each book. Where that 

 has not been possible, there have been inserted, when 



