LITERATURE 



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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 output of labour from this 

 literary mine has been the Bibliotheca Piscatoria by Messrs. 

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

 of the words, 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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