BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 31 



Nutzen der Fischteiche als Bewasserungs-mittel. Mit Abbild. 

 Quedlinburg, 1839. 8. 



Berisch (C. L.). Griindliche Anweisung wiesowohl die zahme 

 als wilde Fischerei gehorig zu betreiben ist, um den hochstmog- 

 lichen Ertrag hiervon zu erlangen, zum Nutzen fiir Fischerei- 

 Aufseher und Teichwarter bei ansehnlichen Fischereien. 

 Leipzig, 1794. 12. 



Bernes (Dame Julyans). See BARNES. 



Bertram (T. G.) The harvest of the sea. 1867, etc. See 

 FISHERIES. 



Best (Thomas). A concise treatise on the art of angling. 

 Confirmed by actual experiences and minute observations, 

 exempt from redundancies and superfluities, which tend more 

 to perplex, than instruct. With the proper methods for 

 breeding and feeding fish, making fish-ponds, stews, etc. 

 With several arcana never before made public. To which is 

 added the compleat fly-fisher. 



As in successive course the seasons roll, 

 So circling pleasures recreate the soul, etc. 



GAY. 



London, printed for C. Stalker, H. Turpin and to be had at all 

 booksellers and fishing tackle shops in town and country. 

 1787. 12.; 2nd edit. 1789; 3rd edit. 1794; 4th edit. 1798 ; 

 5th edit. 1802 ; 6th edit. 1804, 12 ; 7th edit. 1807 ; 8th edit. 

 1808; 9th edit. 1810 ; loth edit. 1814; nth edit. 1822, 12; 

 1832, 18; and edited by Jackson, London, Tegg. (n. d). 32. 

 [The loth and nth editions contain Nobbes' "Treatise on Trol- 

 ling." Best was Keeper of His Majesty's Drawing-room in the 

 Tower of London.] 



Bethune (Rev. George W.) See CATALOGUES and WALTON 

 (L), The complete angler, 1847. 



: Bewick ( Thomas.) A memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by 

 himself, embellished by numerous wood engravings, designed 

 and engraved by the author for a work on British Fishes, and 

 never before published. [Vignette.] Newcastle-on-Tyne : 

 printed by Robert Ward, Dean-street, for Jane Bewick, Gates- 

 head, etc. 1862. 8. 



[The engravings are of fish and fishing scenes, prepared to illus- 

 trate a work, "to match the histories of quadrupeds and British 

 birds," upon which Bewick was engaged at the time of his death. 

 Greater progress had been made with the vignettes and tail pieces 

 than with the fish, of which only sixteen blocks and one copper- 

 plate were finished. A prospectus containing two specimens of the 

 engravings and printed on one side of an octavo leaf, was circulated 

 in 1824. "A History of British Fishes. The figures engraved on 

 wood, oy T. Bewick/' it states, "is intended to be put to press in 



