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INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



This collection was formed by John Bartlett, A.M. (Harv. 1871), 

 of Cambridge, author of " Familiar Quotations," and a Concordance of 

 Shakespeare, etc., himself " a practitioner of more than fifty years, 

 experience of the art of angling " ; by him it was presented to the 

 Library of Harvard College, Nov. i/th, 1892, when it numbered 1014 

 volumes and 269 pamphlets. A large proportion of the volumes are 

 handsomely bound, the panels of the back being ornamented in many 

 cases with dies showing fishes in gold. 



After the collection was received, it was arranged in subject groups 

 according to the scheme given on the next page, and to it were 

 added most of what few books on angling proper the Library already 

 possessed. In other groups of the collection, however, the like was 

 not done, and the catalogue, therefore, does not represent the full 

 strength of the College Library in fisheries, fish culture, the natural 

 history of fishes, etc. ; nor have there been added from the College 

 Library any books dealing indirectly with angling, like travels and other 

 descriptive works, which Mr. Bartlett collected in large numbers. 



The books were catalogued and the list prepared by Miss Louise 

 Rankin Albee, of the Library staff, in the summer and autumn of 

 1893, and the spring of 1895, pressure of other work necessitating long 

 interruptions. 



The arrangement of titles and the position of shelf-marks on the printed 

 page have been determined solely by the requirements of the card 

 catalogue, since the list is printed from the type set up for the cards. 



A catalogue of the collection was printed at Cambridge in 1882 

 [Ang. 1.55], and a supplement in 1886 [Ang. 1.56]. A second 

 supplement exists in manuscript [Ang. 1.56]. 



