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Bibliotheca Piscatoria : a Catalogue of Books on Angling, the 



Fisheries, and Fish-culture, with Bibliographical Notes, and 



an Appendix of Citations touching on Angling and Fishing 



from old English Authors. By T. Westwood and T. 



Satchell. 8vo, pp. 397. London : W. Satchell. 1883. 



We have here another book on Angling, though of a very 

 different character to that just noticed. It is a second edition of 

 a small duodecimo of 82 pages which appeared some twenty 

 years ago, and has long been out of print. The present volume 

 of nearly 400 pages shows what extensive additions have been 

 made to the original work ; but, as the authors state in their 

 preface, it is not only the addition of titles that they have aimed 

 at, but extreme accuracy in transcribing those titles. 



The volume, they observe, " contains nearly six times the 

 matter of its predecessor. But it is in method not in bulk that 

 we claim to have chiefly advanced. Knowing that the value of 

 a bibliography depends solely on its precision and accuracy, we 

 have endeavoured to set forth the title of every book registered in 

 its literal form, and to furnish those minute particulars touching 

 printers, publishers, pagination, illustrations, &c, which serve 

 to show the successive changes through which the most popular 

 angling books have passed, and enable the collector to prove the 

 completeness of the works in his possession." 



The volume is divided into three sections. The first, occupying 

 270 pages, comprises books which treat purely of angling; the 

 second, extending over about sixty pages, relates only to fisheries ; 

 and the third contains books on pisciculture, to which some eighty 

 odd pages are devoted. This is followed by an appendix of quota- 

 tions from poets and dramatists relating to fishing, and the volume 

 concludes with twenty-four pages of additions and corrections 

 which were noted too late to come into their proper place. 



As not only every work, but every edition to which access 

 could be obtained, has been carefully examined by Mr. Satchell, 

 some idea may be formed of the immense labour involved in the 

 preparation of this volume. It will not only interest a large 

 number of those who delight in angling, but forms a most useful 

 work of reference for bibliophilists, who, we imagine, will not be 

 slow to secure copies. 



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