BOOKS ABOUT FISHING. 



Bibliotbeca 

 ptscatoda : 



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 THOMAS WESTWOOD and THOMAS SATCHELL. 



Tj>. 432, medium Svo, cloth, gilt top, price \<,s. ; and 

 mediu7)i 4/0, cloth, gilt top, price SOJ. 



Copies may also be obtained in whole and half morocco and in quires. 



A Series of Supplements containing Additions and Corrections will be issued at 

 intervals and forwarded without charge to any possessor of the booh who maLj 

 please to furnish his address. 



" ^ magnum opus in every sense of the word. . . . We owe a deep debt 

 of gratitude to the gentlemen who have given themselves so vast an amount 

 of labour and pains to produce this almost marvellous work. . . . To say 

 that this has been a labour of love is only to say what must be evident on 

 every page of it — had it not been so, the work could never have been pro- 

 duced. . . . The names of Westwood and Satchell will go down to 

 posterity as the gi-eat exponents and rescuers from the unknown of a large 

 portion of the angling literature which has been thrown broadcast upon the 

 world for these three hundred years or so, . . . Not only every work, but 

 every edition which could by any possibility be seen, has been examined 

 and carefully noted by Mr. Satchell. As little as possible has been taken 

 upon report or hearsay. . . . Nothing which could be done to insure an 

 accurate description of every work mentioned has been neglected ; and few 

 who are not themselves collectors will be disposed to credit the amount of 



