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Wells (Joseph). The temperance fishing book; or, the con- 

 templative angler. Being a new and complete general treatise 

 on that pleasing and healthful recreation, the art of angling. 

 Containing a description of all the various kinds of fish, with 

 full instructions how to angle for them ;...and much other 

 useful information never published in any other treatise. 

 Sheffield, 1842. 12.; Second edition, improved. 1853. 

 front., pp. 158. iv. 12. 



[ This little work is all but unknown out of its special locality. 

 It is divided into two parts, of which the first is devotional, didac- 

 tical and scientific, and the second practical. The scraps of verse, 

 scattered over its pages, are of a home-made and halting character.] 



Westwood (Thomas). A new bibliotheca piscatoria. 1861-9. 

 See CATALOGUES. 



The chronicle of the complete angler of Izaak 



Walton and Charles Cotton, being a bibliographical record of 

 its various phases and mutations. London, Willis and 

 Sotheran, 1864. pp. xv. 64. 4. 



[ Twenty-five copies were printed on large paper.] 



The quest of the Sancgreall, the sword of king- 

 ship and other poems. London, John Russell Smith, 1 868. 8. 

 [Contains "A garland of angling rhymes," viz. "A Lay of the 

 Lea," " Hey for Coquet," " Farewell to Coquet," and " An 'angler's 

 dream under Rolandseck." The third was originally published in 

 the Newcastle Fishers' Garlands. Ed. 1864.] 



Wetenschappelijke bladen ter uitbreiding der Nederlandsche 

 visscherij en ter bevordering van de kennis onzer inlandsche 

 visschen. Deventer, 1845. 8. (Bosgoed). 



Wheatley ( Hewett). The rod and the line : or practical hints 

 and dainty devices, for the sure taking of trout, grayling, etc. 

 By Hewett Wheatley, Esq., Senior, angler. In five parts. 

 " Mine is a work of death ! " Schiller's William Tell. London, 

 Longman, 1849. pp. 157. 9 plates of baits and tackle. 8. 



[ Characterized by a mixture of caustic humour and sound 

 practical knowledge.] 



Wheeldon ( J. P.) Angling resorts near London, the Thames 

 and the Lea. London, Trubner ; Edinburgh [printed], 1878. 

 pp. viii. 218. 8. 



[ Information originally given in Bellas Life of which the writer 

 is piscatorial correspondent.] 



Wheelwright (Horace William). See BUSHMAN (The old), 

 pseud. 



White ( John). A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions ; 

 unlocked and opened for the recreation of ingenious spirits at 

 their vacant hours... Collected by J. W. a lover of artificial 



