70 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



umberlande, thysse yere o thyncarnacon of our Lorde, mdccc 



xxxxxviiii.) 4°. 



[97 leaves printed on one side only. A very curious and original 

 work and one of the ciiief rarities of the angling bibliophile's collec- 

 tion. It was both printed and illustrated by the author, and has 

 remained anonymous hitherto, but the author's name is now 

 attached to it, with his permission. Only forty copies were struck 

 off for private circulation. It is partly historical and practical, 

 partly legendary and poetical, and the illustrations, which are 

 numerous, consist of admirable etchings, woodcuts, designs 

 coloured by hand, etc. 



Some of the engravings were emploved to adorn the large paper 

 copies of the Newcastle Fishers' Garlands. 1864. We have seen a 

 copy offered m a New York bookseller's catalogue at ^30.] 



The compleatest angling booke, etc. ( Second edition. 



Imprynted att Newe Castle upon Tine by Andro Reid for ye 

 authour ande fynysshed ye twelft daie of August, beinge 

 Seynct Grous hys Festival! thys yere thyncarnacon of oure 

 Lorde. mdccclxxxi.) pp. 238. 4°. 



[ The preface states that the entire issue of the original edition 

 was "offered on the insatiate altar of Friendship," and "the author's 

 friends having long cried in vain and still continuing to ' cry for 

 more,' that considerate individual... unoppressed by Bumbledom, 

 Parochial or Piscatorial, has, at length determined they shall have 

 it." With one or two exceptions the volume contains all the old 

 plates and neariv as many new ones, all displaying the humorous 

 feeling and the 'artistic skill which give Mr. Crawhall's works a 

 "place apart" among angling books. The impression was limited 

 to 100 copies and the plates then destroyed.] 



Border notes, and mixty-maxty. (Imprinted by 



Andrew Reid for the author, and are to be sold by Robert 

 Robinson, Bewick's Head, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon 

 Tyne.) 1880. pp. 140. 4°. 



[Only fifty copies printed ; the plates destroyed. 

 This work will form a pendant to "The compleatest angling 

 booke," in originality, and eventually, in rarity. It is an ' olla- 

 podrida' of angling verse and miscellaneous drollery, illustrated 

 with masterly pen and ink sketches, (some of them by the author's 

 son), coloured plates, head and tail pieces, etc. 



Of Mr. Crawhall it may be said that he has created crown-jewels 

 for the angling-libraries of the future. There can be no question 

 that his books will give rise to eager competition in the auction- 

 rooms of half a century hence.] 

 Crescenze (Pietro de). Ruralium commodorum libri duo- 

 decim finiunt feliciter per Johannem Schuszler ciuem Augus- 

 tensem impressi. (147 1). fol. 



[ Black letter. 209 unpaged leaves. The first edition of a work 

 supposed to have been written early in the 14th century. It has 

 been frequently reprinted and translated. John of Westphalia 

 printed three editions at Louvain, one being in 1473. The eariiest 



