i 9 4 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



in verse and prose of Izaak Walton. With notes and preface 

 by R. H. S. London, Pickering, 1878. 8. 



Sherer (John). Rural life described and illustrated. ..with 

 authentic information on. ..angling, etc. Illustrated with 100 

 steel engravings. London and New York, (n. d.) 4. 



Shipley (William). A true treatise on the art of fly-fishing, 

 trolling, etc., as practised on the Dove and on the principal 

 streams of the Midland Counties ; applicable to every trout 

 and grayling river in the Empire. Edited by Edward Fitz- 

 gibbon. London, Simpkin, 1838. front., pp. xii. 264. 12. 

 [ A few copies were on large paper, with cuts on India paper.] 



Shirley ( Thomas). The angler's museum ; or, the whole art 

 of float and fly fishing. Containing, I. The nature and pro- 

 perties of fish in general. II. Rules and cautions to be obser- 

 ved by young anglers. III. The choice and preparation of 

 rods and lines. IV. Of float-fishing, and of live and dead 

 baits. V. Of fly-fishing, and the preparation of artificial flies. 

 VI. An account of the different sorts of fish, their haunts 

 and spawning times, and seasons to angle for them. VII. 

 An account of some of the principal sea fish, their nature, 

 qualities and the manner of catching them, etc. VIII. Par- 

 ticulars respecting the laws and customs of angling. The 

 whole carefully collected from actual experience by Thomas 

 Shirley. London. Printed for John Fielding. (1784). port., 

 pp. viii. 136. 12.: The second edition. To which is pre- 

 fixed the Sermon of St. Anthony to a miraculous congrega- 

 tion of fishes. London, John Fielding, (n. d.) /or/., pp. xii. 

 136. 12.; The third edition. London, John Fielding, 

 (n. d.) port., pp. viii. 135. 12. 



[" The rapid sale of the first edition," says the preface to the 

 second, " while it affords the editor the most flattering marks of 

 preference, calls upon him likewise to pay every attention to the 

 improvement of the second edition. How far he has succeeded 

 therein must be left to the judgment of the impartial reader." The 

 editor did not respond to this "call upon him," though he would 

 have us think differently 7 . The second edition is a re-issue of the 

 first, with new title-page, new preface, and " Sermon of St. 

 Anthony " prefixed. The " Third edition " is a paginary reprint of 

 the former impression as far as p. 122, but ten lines are afterwards 

 saved by reducing the "spacing" and the work ends with page 135. 

 The preface is that of the " Second edition " without the last para- 

 graph. Shirley's name disappears from the title-page of both these 

 editions. The portrait prefixed is that of " Mr. John Kirby, the 

 celebrated fisherman," who was keeper of Newgate and died in 

 1804, aged 8o.j 



Shooting and fishing trips. 1876. 8. See WILDFOWLER, 

 pseud. 



