BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



A (J. L.). The river Dove, with some quiet thoughts on the 

 happy practice of angling. [By John Lavicount Anderdon.] 

 London, Pickering, 1847. 12. 



[A former edition was printed for private circulation in 1845 

 without date, or printer's name, and with the following title : " The 

 river Dove ; with some quiet thoughts on the happy practice of 

 angling, near to the seat of Mr. Charles Cotton at Beresford Hall, in 

 Staffordshire." Six copies of this edition were printed in 4to. and 

 six of the I2mo size on tinted paper. The number was limited to 

 twenty-five. 



The author, in his introduction, thus addresses the reader: " Sir, 

 the book I here present to you was put into the printer's hands for 

 the entertainment of a few gentlemen fishers. I heartily wish it were 

 a more worthy tribute to the memory of those best masters of the 

 art, Mr. Izaac Walton, and Mr. Charles Cotton, 



"Alas that they are dead !" 



The work is an imitation of the quaint style of the assumed epoch, 

 Walton and Cotton having been adopted as models. It is in the 

 form of a colloquy, the interlocutors being an angler, a painter and 

 (occasionally) their host. The scene is in Derbyshire, in the foot- 

 steps of Charles Cotton, along the immemorial greensward of Dove- 

 dale. A biographical notice of Anderdon is prefixed to his posthu- 

 mous work, "Geron," 1877 ; and "A series of views," taken by an 

 artist under his instructions, of Beresford Hall and the river Dove, 

 was issued with a brief preface by his brother-in-law, Mr. F. Man- 

 ning, in 1866, and will be found under COTTON (Charles).] 



Accomplisht Lady's Delight. See LADY. 



Ackerhof (A. D.) Die Nutzung der Teiche und Gewasser 

 durch Fischzucht und Pflanzenbau. Mit einer Abbildung. 

 Quedlinburg, Basse, 1869. 8. 



Adam (Victor). Voyage d'un chasseur en Afrique ; ou, revue 

 generate des chasses et des peches de ce pays. 40 gravures. 

 Paris, 1843 and 1853. 8. 



Adam (William). Dales, scenery, fishing streams, and mines 

 of Derbyshire and surrounding counties, historical and geo- 

 logical. London, Kent; [printed at] Wirksworth, 1861. 12. 



Adams (Henry Gardiner). Sea-side lesson book, designed to 

 convey to the youthful mind a knowledge of the nature and 

 uses of the common things of the sea-coast. London, 1856. 18 



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