BOOKS ABOUT FISHING. 



"A thoroughly comprehensive catalogue. , . . No less than 3,158 

 editions and reprints of 2, 14S distinct works are noticed, and in the majority 

 of cases, the titles and dates are given from a personal examination of the 

 books by the authors themselves. Not content, however, with this, they 

 have compiled a list of all the statutes and parliamentary papers which 

 deal with the siibject, beginning with the Statute of 3 Edw. I. c. 20. 

 Those readers of ' Notes and Queries,' who are disciples of the gentle art, 

 will be the first, we are sure, to acknowledge their obligations to Messrs. 

 Westwood and Satchell for the labour which they have so well bestowed 

 upon such a worthy subject." — Azotes and Queries. 



" The authors by no means confine themselves to dry detail, but inter- 

 mix with serious information many amusing specimens of quaintness and 

 humour. ' ' — Civilian. 



" Long desired, long promised, this book is a treasure to the scholarly 

 angler. Its prototype, by Mr. Westwood alone, appeared in 1861, and 

 has for years been out of print. We can hardly call this a second edition 

 of that thin duodecimo, which only embraced the titles of six hundred 

 and fifty works on angling, for the ' Bibliotheca Piscatoria ' now appears 

 as a stately octavo of some four hundred pages, and contains the names of 

 six times the number of angling books previously registered. Estimated by 

 bulk alone, the frog has succeeded in swelling itself to the size of the ox. 

 It is no slight to ]\Ir. West wood's book of 1861 to say that bibliography 

 has attained the honour of an exact science since that time. Workmg on 

 his lines, therefore, and aided by his counsel, but guided by modern and 

 more precise ideas on cataloguing books and editions, Mr. Satchell has spent 

 more than two years in ascertaining the exact titles, publishers, pagination, 

 illustrations, and the like belonging to all the works which treat of angling, 

 disclosed by the most careful searching. The result lies before us, a monu- 

 ment of diligence and good work. It is indispensable to every collector of 

 angling works, while the biogi-aphical and bibliographical scraps scattered 

 through its pages will enable the man with no pretensions to be a scholar 

 to defy the taunt of Lord Falkland, who ' pitied unlearned gentlemen in 

 rainy weather.' " — Academy. 



