6o BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



whether belonging to ponds or rivers. By a Lover of Angling. 



London, printed for Thos. Bassett, 1681. pp. viii. 180. Table, 



etc.^ xii. 12°.; Second edition. Illustrated with sculptures : 



and very much enlarged. London. Printed for T. B^sett, 



1689. 12°. viii. 326 pp. Table, ^/c, 10 pp. 2 plates jM'hird 



edition. London, Printed for William Battersby, 1700. 12°. 



[The first edition was published anonvmously. " The author 



hath forborne," he says in his preface, " to affi.x his name ; not that 



he is ashamed to own it, but wishes the reader to regard things, 



more than empty names." 



Chetham's prefaces are in Diogenes' vein, curt and caustic ; he 

 escapes from the category of manual makers, and takes rank as one 

 of the original writers on the sport. He is indebted, indeed, to his 

 forerunners, but acknowledges it ; he improves on their systems, 

 and calls attention to the fact. He is never servile, nor plagiaristic, 

 always honest, sometimes a little surly. 



There are said to be two editions of 1700. The one noted above 

 is a paginary reprint of the second. It has a rude woodcut frontis- 

 piece, in a border, headed " The Compleat Fisher," and a still ruder 

 leaf of eight fish, disposed in eight separate cuts on one page." The 

 preface is dated from " Smedley near Manchester in Lancashu-e, 

 Nov. 26. 1688."] 



Chicago Field. The American Sportsman's journal. /// 

 progress. Chicago, 111. 1874, etc. fol. 



Chinese. The Chinese Repository. 20 vols. Canton, 1833-51. 

 8°. 



[Contains : "Modes of capturing fish." Vol i. p. 260 ; i.\. p. 637. 

 Fish caught by birds. Vol. .xvi. p. 576. Fish reared by Chinese. 

 Vol. iii. p. 463 ; vi. p. 68.] 



Chitty (Edward). See South (Theophilus). 



Chitty (Joseph). A treatise on the game laws and on fisheries, 

 with appendix containing all the statutes and cases on the 

 subject. (Continuation with a copious collection of precedents.) 

 3 vol. London, 1812-16. 8"^.; 2nd edit, greatly improved. 

 London, 1826. 8°. 



Choice, chance, and change : or conceites in their colours. 

 Imprinted at London, for Nathaniell Fosbrooke, and are to be 

 sold at his shop in Paul's Churchyard, at the signe of the 

 Helmet, 1606. 4°- 



[This work is characterised as "A dialogue after a freindlie 

 greeting, vpon a sodaine meeting betweene Arnofilo and Tidero ; as 

 they trauailed vpon the way, betwi.xt Mount ,)erkin and the Great 

 City at the foot of the wood in the long valley." Tidero having 

 visited several unknown countries, describes the manners and diver- 

 sions of the people ; the following is a brief e.xtract : — 



" Oh how the fisherman would discourse of his Angle, his Line, 

 his Cork, his Lead, his Bait, his Net, his Ginne, his Leape, his Weere, 

 and I know not what; his obseruing of time, day and night,, his 



