(*) Aldam (W.H.) A quaint treatise on "Flees and the art a' artyficiall flee making," by anold man well-known on the Derbyshire streams a century ago; printed from an old MS., never before published. With editorial notes and patterns of flies and samples of the materials for making each fly. London, Day, 1876. 4o.
(*) Allerton (R.G.) Brook trout fishing. An account of the trip of the Oquossoc Angling Association to Northern Maine, in June 1869. New York, 1869. 12o.
(*) An Angler. The fly maker's handbook illustrated with coloured plates representing upwards of fifty of the most useful artificial flies for trout and grayling. Liverpool: Liverpool Printing and Stationery. c.1910. Green covers.
(*) Angler. The angler's desideratum, containing the best and fullest directions for dressing the artificial fly, ever offered to the public; with some new and valuable inventions, by the author, from a practice of nearly half a century. [Edinburgh], 1839. 12o 48pp
(*) Angler. The angler's guide; containing easy instructions
for the youthful beginner, with several observations on fishing,
pointing out the proper times and seasons for the different kinds
of fish, etc. By a Lover of the Art. London, 1828. 18o
[ The "Gentleman angler," with a new title.]
Angler. The angler's hand-book; containing concise instructions for every department of the art, and two coloured plates of flies, including many never before figured. London, Tyas, 1838. 24o; 3rd edition 1840. 24o. [Re-issued by Routledge.]
Angler.
Angler's magazine or complete fisherman: containing short, plain,
and easy instructions, whereby the most ignorant beginner may
in a short time become a perfect artist in angling for salmon,
salmon peal, trout, pike, carp, perch, barbel, tench, bream, chubb,
grayling, mullet, flounders, roch, dace, grudgeon, etc. With several
observations on angling, angle rods, and artificial flies; directions
for chusing the best hair and Indian grass: of the proper times
and seasons for river and pond fishing: when fish spawn: and what
baits are chiefly to be used, etc. Also, the method of rock and
sea fishing: choice receipts for dressing fish: how to improve
barren ground, by turning it into fish ponds; with plain directions
for making a trout pond: the laws of angling, and the form of
a license and deputation for angling.
To which is added the angler's dictionary, wherein everything
proper to be known and an explanation of the technical works used
in the art, are digested in such a method as to assist his knowledge
and practice upon bare inspection. Together with the angler's
new song. By a Gentleman who has made Angling his diversion upwards
of twenty-seven years. Dublin, James Hoey Junior. 1760.
[The preface of this book is signed, G.S. and it appears to be
a combination of the 'Gentleman Angler' and 'Angler's magazine'
of 1754.]
Angler.
The compleat and experienc'd angler, in two parts: or, the angler's
vade-mecum, shewing the best way to make fishing rods, lines,
floats, plummets, hooks, artificial flies, panniers, and other
tackle; and how to find the haunts of fish, and take them with
all sorts of baits, as well artificial as natural, in all sorts
of water. To make divers sorts of oils and ointments exceeding
the oil of osprey. The second part contains directions to take
fowl, and to order singing birds, hawks, poultry, and dogs. Printed
for G. Conyers, at the Ring in Little-Britain. [cir 1712] 24o.
Front., ii & 138pp.
[This is a reprint of Markham's "Young sportsman's instructor,"
with new matter added, and it is declared at the end that "this
book contains curiosities and secrets that never were in print
in any book of angling whatever." The copy, belonging to
Mr. Joseph Crawhall, of Newcastle, which we have examined, as
a title-page with the reverse blank, and pages 1-138. Page 1 is
headed "The young angler's delight and instructor,"
and as the sign. is A,4, it is probable that one or two leaves
of preliminary matter are wanting. Part II begins on page 97;
page 127 is headed "Curiosities," the first of which
is "To make sport with a pike or jack," and another
(p.132) "An angler's directions to preserve orchards,"
which consists in raising a smoke with "mucky straw"
when the wind is easterly, so that it "may be carried over
the whole orchard." This is an avowed excerpt from the "Epit.
Husb. p.38." The book is very rare and we have found no trace
of it in any collector's or other catalogue.]
Angler.
The North Country Angler; or, the art of angling as practised
in the Northern Counties of England. London, 1786. 12o.; 2nd edit.
1789; 3rd edit. Leeds, 1800;
["Ought to have been called 'The North Country Poacher.'says
Chatto. "Most anglers," says the writer, "are very
curious about their fishing rods. One who has written very ingeniously
and methodically, recommends the bag-rod, as the unum necessarium,
as if one could not be an angler without having such a one. It
is to be made of I don't know how many pieces, to be carried in
a bag by his side, so that I cannot help thinking I see the Squire
trudging along to the river, like one of our North Country pipers,
with his "great drone, and his less lilters, in a great bag
under his coat-lap."]
Angler.
The Universal angler; or, that art improved in all its parts,
especially in fly-fishing, describing in several sorts of fresh-water
fish with their properest baits; also the Thames colours and seasons
of all the most useful flies, together with directions for making
each fly artificially, in the most exact manner, the whole interspersed
with many curious and uncommon observations. Adorned with cuts
of the several fish herein treated of. London, 1766. 12o.; Tewkesbury
1780.
[A reprint of "The art of angling" by R. Bowlker, with
additions.]
(*) Anon. The young angler's companion. Giving a description of all the different methods of angling, the best bouts and tackle, as well as the times and seasons for using them: Illustrated with fifty engravings; also a description of trolling and fly fishing. With a correct account of the manner of making artificial flies, tying hooks, repairing tackle, etc. 26pp. London: James March (c.1820).
Art. The art of angling, or, perfect instructor in that useful and pleasing recreation, including every necessary instruction as to baits, hooks, flies, worms, etc., and a variety of other interesting information to the learner, as well as to the most practised angler. London, Orlando Hodgson, [1825?] pp.16/ 16o.
Arundo. [pseud. John Beaver] Practical fly-fishing founded on nature and tested by the experience of nearly 40 years in various parts of the United Kingdom. With instructions for imitating all the most useful flies; also, remarks on fly-rods, the best woods for them and the best way of making. etc. By Arundo. London, Simpkin. 1849. 12o
Aston (Sir George). Letters to young flyfishers. xii, 154pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1927.
(*) Author. [attributed to Captain Clarke, R.M.] The Angler's desideratum, containing the best and fullest directions for dressing the artificial fly; with some new and valuable inventions. 48pp. Edinburgh: M. Anderson. 1839.
(*) Bailey (William). The angler's instructor. A treatise on the best modes of angling in English rivers, lakes, and ponds, and on the habits of fish. v.111. London: Longman and Co. 1857.
(*) Bainbridge
(George C) The fly-fisher's guide;
illustrated by coloured plates representing upwards of forty of
the most useful flies, accurately from nature. Liverpool, 1816.
8o.; 2nd edit., with additions, Liverpool [printed]; London, 1828.
8o.;
[One of the text books of the fly-fisher. Twelve copies of the
first edition were in 4to., coloured with great care, and published
at two guineas.]
(*) Bainbridge (W. G.). The fly fisher's guide to aquatic flies and their imitations. 87pp. London: A & C Black. 1936.
(*) Barker
(Thomas). The art of angling; wherein
are discovered many rare secrets very necessary to be known by
all that delight in that recreation. Written by Thomas Barker,
an ancient practitioner in the said art. Printed by R.H. and are
to be sold by Olive Fletcher, near the Seven Stars at the west-end
of St. Pauls. Anno. Dom. 1651, 12o Reprinted: London, Burn, 1820. 12o
[A single copy of the reprint was on vellum and four on straw-coloured
paper. One hundred copies were printed.]
Barker (Thomas).
Barker's Delight; or, the art of angling; wherein are discovered
many rare secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight
in that recreation, both for catching the fish, and dressing thereof.
The 2nd edition, much enlarged.
"There is a time and season to every purpose under heaven.
Everything is beautifull in his time." Eccles. iii. I, II.
London, printed by J.G. for Richard Marriot and are to be sold
at his shop in St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet-street. 1657; and
[with new title page] printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to
be sold at the Princes Armes in St. Paul's churchyard, 1659, 12o.
Reprinted: London, Burn, 1820, 12o; and Hodgson and Co. [some
copies] E. Bryant, 1826. 12o
["Barker's delight" is also inserted in the "Young
sportsman's miscellany," London, 1826.]
Barnes (Dame Julyans).
This present boke shewyth the manere of hawkynge and huntynge:
and also of diuysynge of Cote armours. It shewyth also a good
matere belongynge to horses: wyth other comendable treatyses.
And ferdermore of the blaysynge of armys: as here it may appere
[Colophon:] Here in this boke afore ben shewed the treatyses perteynynge
to hawkynge and huntynge with others dyuers playsaunt materes
belongynge vnto noblesse: and also a ryght noble treatise of Cotarmours:
as in this present boke it may appere. And ere we ende this laste
treatyse whyche specyfyeth of blasynge of armys. Enprynted at
Westmestre by Wynkyn the worde, the yere of thyncarnacon of our
lorde, mcccclxxxxvi [Westminster] 1496. fol.
[Black letter; 74 leaves. On the recto of the first leaf is a
woodcut of birds and on the verso a group of men with a hawk.
Beneath the latter follows the title. The register commences on
the following leaf: a-e in sexes; f and g in fours; h, 6 leaves;
a-e in sexes and d, 8 leaves. No pagination or catchwords. The
"Treatyse of fysshynge" follows that of "Cote armures"
and begins on the verso of g, iv; it is not in the edition of
1496. The larger device of Wynken de Worde is on the last lead
(d viii) which has the device of Caxton on the verso. Copies upon
vellum are in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke and in the
Grenville Library, British Museum. The Museum has also a copy
on paper with the last leaf wanting. Herbert's "Ames,"
pp 126-33, contains an elaborate account of this book, which is
amplified and amended from Herbert's notes and illustrated with
facsimiles, in Dibdin's edition, vol. ii., pp. 55-66. Dr. Dibdin
mentions a third copy on vellum. There are also copies on paper
in the Huth Library and in the Bodleian.
Dame Julyans or Juliana Barnes, Bernes or Berners, to whom these
treatises are ascribed, is supposed to have been a daughter of
Sir James Berners of Roding Berners in the county of Essex (a
favourite of Richard the Second) who was beheaded in 1388. It
is said that she was celebrated for her learning and accomplishments
and that she head the office of Prioress of the Benedictine Nunnery
of Sopwell, near St. Albans, but as far as we can learn, these
statements rest on pure conjecture or meagre inference. The first
edition of her Book of St. Albans was printed by the school-master
printer of St. Albans in 1486.]
Barnes, Dame Julyans.
Here begynneth a treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle. [Colophon:]
Here endeth the boke of Fysshynge with other dyuers maters. Imprynted
at London, by Wynkyn de Worde, dwellynge in Flete-street, at the
sygne of the Sonne. (circa 1500.] 4o
[Black letter. A to D iv. The woodcut of a man angling is under
the title. This edition appears to have been published as a 'lytyll
plaunflet" notwithstanding the caution of the authoress against
this course, given in the concluding paragraph of the treatise
in previous editions, which in this instance is omitted: "And
for by cause that this present treatyse sholde not come to the
hondys of eche ydle persone, whyche wolde desire it yf it were
enprynted allone by itself, and put in a lytyll plaunflet therfore
I haue somplyld it in a greter volume of dyuerse bokys concernynge
to gentyll and noble men to the entent that the forsayd ydle persones
whyche shoulde haue but lytyll mesure in the sayd dysporte of
fysshyng sholde not by this meane vtterly dystroye it."
This edition varies the orthography and has some slight corrections
of the text and some omissions. The only known copy which was
formerly in the Harleian Collection subsequently passed through
the hands of Mr. Gulston, Mr. Ratcliffe, Mr. Haworth, and Mr.
George Wilkinson.]
Barnes (Dame Julyans).
The book [of St Albans;] containing the treatises of Hawking,
Hunting, Coat-armour; Fishing; and Blasing of Arms. As printed
at Westminster, by Wynkyn De Worde; the year of the Incarnation
of our Lord. 1496, London, reprinted by Harding and Wright, for
White and Cochrane, and R. Triphook. 1810. Fol.
[150 copies printed. The work consists of "Introduction,"
2pp; "Biographical notices," 16pp; Bibliographical notices
84pp,. and finally a verbatim, literatim and punctuatim fac-simile
of the 2nd edition of "The Boke of St. Albans." A bibliographical
labour carefully and conscientiously executed by Mr. Joseph Haslewood.
A few copies of the Introduction were published separately.]
(*) Barton (E.A.). An album of the chalk stream. 103pp. Dustjacket. London: Adam and Charles Black. 1946.
Bellamy (J.C.)
The housekeeper's guide to the fish market for each month of the
year; and an account of the fishes and fisheries of Devon and
Cornwall, in respect of commerce, economy, natural history, and
statistics. London, Longman, 1843. pp.144. 12o.; London, Hamilton,
1862. pp.146. 12o.
[This volume also treats of rod and line fishing, baits, artificial
fly, etc.]
Bentley (Gerald Eades), editor. The arte of angling 1577. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1956. [edited by Gerald Eades Bentley, with an introduction by Carl Otto v. Kienbusch and explanatory notes by Henry L. Savage]
(*) Bergman (Ray). Trout. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing. 1938.
(*) Best (Thomas). A concise treatise on the art of angling. Confirmed by actual experiences and minute observations, exempt from redundancies and superfluities, which tend more to perplex, than instruct. With the proper methods for breeding and feeding fish, making fish-ponds, stews, etc. With several arcana never before made public. To which is added the compleat fly-fisher. London, printed for C. Stalker, H. Turpin and to be had at all booksellers and fishing tackle shops in town and country. 1787. 12o.; 2nd edit. 1789; 3rd edit. 1794;
(*) Bickerdyke (John). The book of the all round angler. A comprehensive treatise on angling in both fresh and salt water. London: L. Upcott. 1888.
Blacker (William). Art of angling, and complete system of fly-making and dyeing of colours. Illustrated with plates, showing the different processes of the fly before is finished; giving the angler a perfect knowledge of everything requisite to complete him in his noble art. Published by the author, 54, Dean-street, Soho, 1842. pp.vi.38. 12o Reissued as:
Blacker, (William). Blacker's catechism of fly-making, angling, and dyeing. Comprising most essential information. Published by the author. Entered at Stationers' Hall, Dec. 8, 1842; [London], 1843, 16o,; and again as:
(*) Blacker
(William). Blacker's art of fly-making,
etc., comprising angling and dyeing of colours. With engravings
of salmon and trout flies, showing the process of the gentle craft
as taught in the pages... Rewritten and revised by the author
Blacker, himself. etc. London, 1855. 12o
[This title is engraved and there is an engraved and coloured
frontispiece of "fly-fishing." In this edition, there
are 20 engraved plates of flies, fly-making and tackle, of which
18 are coloured. The work is a strange medley of practical usefulness
and rhapsodical extravagance. The instructions for fly-making
are peculiarly precise and clear. Some parts of the "Catechism"
follow the "Art of angling" word for word; others are
dissimilar. The earlier editions have specimens of the flies wafered
to the page, in this anticipating the method of the sumptuous
volume, for which anglers are indebted to Mr. Aldam.]
Blakey (Robert) Historical sketches of the angling literature of all nations. 335 pp. London: John Russell Smith. 1856.
Blaine (Delabere P).
An encyclopaedia of rural sports; or complete account, historical,
practical, and descriptive, of hunting, shooting, fishing, racing,
etc. London, Longmans, 1840, 8o.; revised and corrected by ...
Ephemera; illustrated by above 600 engravings on wood, 1852, 8o.;
[Contains one of the best and most voluminous treatises on the
sport.]
(*) Bluett (Jeffrey). Sea trout and occasional salmon. viii, 152pp. London: Cassell. 1948.
Book. Book
of sports, or man of spirit's companion: containing ... fencing
... the broadsword ... riding ... hunting, fowling ... bird fancying,
etc., and the pleasing and fashionable amusement derived from
the art of angling, completely developed, including every information
relative to the haunts of fish of all sorts, proper baits, the
various hooks and several curious methods of angling not generally
known, with a correct abstract of the Acts of Parliament relative
to angling. Illustrated with beautiful and appropriate plates,
by eminent artists. London. Printed and published by J. Bailey,
Chancery Lane, 1819. 12o
[Several tracts, separately paged, brought together under one
title. That on angling had been previously issued under the title:
"Bailey's new and complete art of angling, containing all
the necessary instructions for that pleasing and fashionable amusement,
etc." London, (n.d.) pp.24. 12 mo]
(*) Bowlker (Richard and Charles). The art of angling improved in all its parts, especially fly-fishing. Containing a particular account of the several sorts of freshwater fish, with their most proper baits. Also, the names, colors and seasons of all the most useful flies, with directions for making each fly, artificially, in the most exact manner, etc. Also the names, colours, and seasons of all the most useful flies. . The whole imterspers'd with many cuious and uncommon observations. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf. Worcester: M.Olivers. [1746 - 1758?]. [note: the date of the rare first edition of this famous work is generally supposed to be 1746] iv. 95pp. 12o; Worcester, (n.d.).; then as: Bowlker (Richard and Charles). The art of angling, and compleat fly-fisher. Describing the different kinds of fish, their haunts, and places of feeding and retirement. With an account of the generation of fishes, and observations on the breeding of carp, together with directions how to regulate pools and ponds. Also the various kinds of baits...directions for making artificial flies ... with many new improvements in the art of angling. The second edition. Birmingham. Printed by John Baskerville, (1774). 8o,; 3rd edit. Birmingham, [1785?] 8o.;
(*) Bowlker (Richard). Bowlker's art of angling, containing directions for fly-fishing, trolling, making artificial fliles, etc., With a list of the most celebrated fishing stations in North Wales. viii.160. London: Longman, Brown and Co. 1854. First edition.
(*) Brookes (Richard, M.D.) The art of angling, rock and sea fishing: with the natural history of river, pond, and sea fish. Illustrated with 133 cuts. London, John Watts, 1740, 12o.; 2nd edit. London, 1743. 8o.; ...........then as Brookes (Richard, M.D). The art of angling. New improved with additions, and formed into a dictionary. In two parts. I. Containing an account of fish and fish-ponds: a new art of fly-making: the new laws that concern angling: the secret ways of catching fish by ointments, pastes and other arts: directions how to procure baits, and for making all sorts of fish-tackle, with the surest method of finding sport, etc. II. Of the great whale and whale-fishing etc. Illustrated with 136 cuts, exactly describing the different kinds of fish that are found in the fresh or salt water. The whole forming a valuable Sportsman's Magazine; and comprizing all that is curious and valuable in the art of angling. London, T. Lowndes, 1766, 12o. (viii, 292 pp.). 2nd edit. 17--?; 3rd edit., with great improvements, London, 1770, 12o.;....
(*) Brown (John J). The American angler's guide. Being a compilation from the works of popular English authors from Walton to the present time; together with the opinions and practices of the best American anglers: containing every variety of mode adopted in ocean, river, lake and pond fishing; the necessary tackle and baits required; manner of making (note early reference) artificial flies &c. With engravings on wood. Burgess, Stringer NY. 3¾x5 ". 1845. First edition. Dark blue cloth with gilt fisherman on cover, gilt lettering. First edition also seen in brown cloth cover with same gilt. It was not until the fifth edition that Brown admitted his authorship of the guides. Yellow endpapers, 3 flyleaves. Poem with a half fish at heading, verso, and illustrated. "Trout fishing in Sullivan Country New York."
(*) Brown
(John J). The Angler's Almanac for
1848. Calculated for all parts of the United States; containing
besides the usual information, ststistical accounts for fishing,
anecdotes of angling, etc. New York: John J. Brown. 1845.
This volume does not have much practical information concerning
flies, but is a very rare early American angling almanac.
Burgess (J.T.)
Angling; a practical guide to bottom-fishing, trolling, spinning
and fly-fishing. With a chapter on sea fishing. Illustrated. London,
Warne, 1867. pp.viii.182. 8o.
[Forming part of "The Country Library and Family Circle Books."
With an admirable and workmanlike frontispiece drawn by A.W. Cooper.]
Cairncross (David).
The origin of the silver eel, with remarks on bait and fly-fishing.
London, Shield, 1862. pp.viii.96. 8o.
[This amazing little book records the result of "a series
of observations extending over sixty years." "The progenitor
of the silver eel," says the author, "is a small beetle,"
"of this I feel fully satisfied in my own mind, from a rigid
and extensive comparison of its structure and habits with those
of other insects." "The beetle in the act of parturition,"
is represented in a frontispiece, and the fact that the beetle
is evidently a dead one, would not, we feel assured, if known
to the writer, cause him to alter his opinion one jot.]
(*) Carroll
(W.). The angler's vade mecum, containing
a descriptive account of the water flies, their seasons, the kind
of weather that brings them most on the water. The whole represented
in twelve color plates: to which is added, a description of the
different baits used in angling, and where found. Edinburgh, Constable
and Co., 1818. pp.viii. 128. 8o.
[194 examples, arranged under the months from May to September,
and coloured by hand]
Charfy (Guiniad) pseud.
The fisherman: or the art of angling made easy. Containing the
most approved methods in use for fishing or angling for pike,
trout, salmon, etc. Together with their seasons of spawning, hours
of biting, and whatever else is necessary to be known by an expert
angler. Also, directions in the choice, management and application
of the tackle, baits, etc. Likewise, remarks on the utility of
fish ponds ... To which are prefixed, an account of several curious
methods of fishing practised in Europe, etc. By Guiniad Charfy,
Esq. London, printed for J. Dixwell, 148, St. Martin's-lane, (1800?)
8o. iv. 146 pp.; Second edition. London, Printed for J. Smeeton
(1815?) 8o. iv. 148pp.
[A compilation by George Smeeton, printer of St. Martin's-lane,
who, with his wife, was burnt to death. The work is a mere verbatim
appropriation , without acknowledgement, from Saunders' "Complete
fisherman." The second edition was substituted for the fishing
treatise of Nicholas Cox, in a volume entitled, "The nobleman's
and gentleman's recreation," (n.d.) published by Smeeton.
See Cox (N.)]
Cheek (John). The young angler's guide, comprising instructions in the arts of fly-fishing, bottom-fishing, trolling, etc. Illustrated with the numerous fine engravings and woodcuts. London, 1839. 8o. [A tacklemaker's publication, of which there were numerous issues.]
Cheek (John). The British angler's instructor, showing the rods and tackle necessary for every description of fish usually angled for, with the most approved methods of catching them. London, 1854, 1855 & 1859. 16o [A trade publication, distributed gratuitously.]
(*) Cheetham
(James) of Smedley. The angler's
vade-mecum; or, a compendious, yet full discourse of angling:
discovering the aptest methods and ways, exactest rules, properest
baits, and choicest experiments for the catching of all manner
of freshwater fish: perused and approved by many exquisite anglers,
together with a brief discourse of fish-ponds: and not only the
easiest but most palatable ways of dressing all sorts of fish
whether belonging to ponds or rivers. Bay a Lover of Angling.
London, printed for Thos. Bassett, 1681. pp. viii. 180. Table,
etc. xii. 12o.; Second edition. Illustrated with sculptures: and
very much enlarged. London. Printed for T. Bassett, 1689. 12o.
viii. 326pp. Table, etc., 10pp. 2 plates;
[The first edition was published anonymously. "The author
hath forborne," he says in his preface, "to affix his
name; not that he is ashamed of it, but wishes the reader to regard
things, more than empty names."
Chetham's prefaces are in Diogenes' vein, curt and caustic; he
escapes from the category of manual makers, and takes rank, as
one of the original writers on the sport. He is indebted, indeed,
to his forerunners, but acknowledges it; he improves on their
systems, and calls attention to the fact. He is never servile,
nor plagiaristic, always honest, sometimes a little surly.
There are said to be two editions of 1700. The one noted above
is a paginary reprint of the second. It has a rude woodcut frontispiece,
in a border, headed "The Compleat Fisher," and a still
ruder leaf of eight fish, disposed in eight separate cuts on one
page. The preface is dated from "Smedley near Manchester
in Lancashire, Nov. 26. 1688."]
(*) Cholmondeley-Pennell (H.). Modern improvements in fishing tackle and fish hooks. 194pp. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. c.1862.
(*) Cholmondeley-Pennell (H.). The book of the pike. A practical treatise of the various methods of jack-fishing; with an analysis of the tackle employed - the history of the fish, etc. Also a chapter on spinning for trout in lakes and rivers. London, R.Hardwicke, 1865. front., pp.xvi.254. 8o.; Second edition. London, Warne, 1870. 8o.; Third edition. London, Rutledge, [1876.] front., pp.272. 8o.
(*) Cholmondeley-Pennell (H.). Fly-fishing and worm-fishing for salmon, trout and grayling. London, George Routledge and Sons., 1876. front., pp.120. 8o.
Cholmondeley-Pennell (H ). The modern practical angler. A complete guide to fly-fishing, bottom fishing, and trolling. Illustrated by fifty engravings of fish and tackle. London, Warne, (1870). front., pp.xvi.286. 8o.
(*) Chubb (Thomas H.). Retail catalogues for 1891. 9th edition. With angling papers accompanying catalogue of angler's supplies, manufactured by Thos. H. Chubb, The Fishing Rod Manufacturer. 1891. [exceptionally fine]
(*) Clark (Kit). Where the trout hide. 115. London: Brintamous. 1889.
(*) Clericus
[i.e. Rev. W. Cartwright]. Rambles
and recollections of a fly-fisher. Illustrated. With an appendix
containing ample instructions to the novice, inclusive of fly-making,
and a list of really useful flies. By Clericus. London, Chapman
and Hall, 1854 & 1874. 8o.
[Contains eight engravings by the Rev. J. Eagles.]
(*) Clericus [i.e. Rev. W. Cartwright]. Facts and fancies of salmon fishing, with original illustrations. London: Cassell, 1874. 8o 271pp.
(*) Cole
(Ralph). The young angler's pocket
companion; or, a new and complete treatise on the art of angling,
as may be practised with success in every river in England; ...the
art of making artificial flies, etc. To which is now added, a
new and most successful method of trolling and laying trimmers.
... Together with the best method of smelt fishing. London. Printed
for R. Bassam, etc. 1795. 12o.front. pp.108, 2 plates; 1813. 12o;
W. Mason. (1816). front. pp.108. 12o.
[The last mentioned edition, does not include smelt fishing and
other matter.]
(*) Coleby (Ronald J. W.). Regional angling literature. A check list of books on angling and the salmon fisheries in Scotland, Northern England, Wales, and Ireland. With an introductory survey. One of 500 copies. Lincoln: RJW Coleby. 1979. [A must for the bibliophyle, but does little to identify strategic fly tying books.]
Connett (Eugene V.). Fishing a trout stream. 138pp. New York: Derrydale Press.
Cotton (Charles).
See Walton (Iz.) The compleat angler. Being instructions how to
angle for a trout or grayling, in a clear stream. Part II [Cypher]
"Qui mihi non credit, faciat licet ipse periclum: Et fuerit
scriptis aequior ille meis."
London, printed for Richard Marriott and Henry Brome, in St. Paul's
Churchyard. 1676. pp. iv. 112. 12o.
[This was sold separately, or conjointly with Walton and Venables,
under the title of the "Universal angler."]
Country gentleman.
The country gentleman's companion. (vol. I. i. Of the horse in
general. ii. Of riding ... xvii. Of fishing in general, and of
making fish-ponds. xviii. Of taking all sorts of fish. Vol II.
contains ... viii. Of angling in general. ix. Of baits. xi. Of
preserving fish from all sorts of endeavours. xii. Of ordering
ponds for the nourishment of fish.) Bay a Country Gentleman, from
his own experience. 2 vols. London, 1753. 12o. 2nd edition, Dublin,
1755, pp.iv.280.iv.8o.
[One of the metempsychoses to which angling works were anciently
subjected. The treatise on angling above cited is a textual reproduction
of "The Pleasures of Princes" which was also incorporated
by Gervase Markham, with his "Country Contentments."]
Cox (Nicholas).
The gentleman's recreation, if four parts; (viz.) hunting, hawking,
fowling, fishing. Collected from ancient and modern authors forrein
and domestick, and rectified by the experience of the most skilfull
artists of these times. Illustrated with sculptures. London, printed
by E. Flesher, for Maurice Atkins at the Half-moon in St. Paul's
Church-yard, and Nicholas Cox over against Furnivals-Inn-Gate
in Holborne. 1674. 8o.
[Collation; Engraved title, title, pp. x. 284. Four folding plates.
In this edition the book is not claimed by Nicholas Cox, whose
name is appended to the "Epistle Dedicatory," in the
second and subsequent issues. This edition has become very rare
and copies of the five subsequent reprints, are seldom met with
in a perfect state.]
Crawhall (Joseph). A collection of right merrie garlands for North Country anglers, continued to this present year. George Rutland, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1864. pp. xv. 312. 8o. [This is a republication of the celebrated "Newcastle fishers' garlands," with a continuation up to 1864.]
Crawhall (Joseph). The compleatest angling booke that euer was writ, being done oute of ye Hebrewe and other Tongves, by a Person of Honor. Adorn'd with scvlptvres. (Imprynted by ande for ye Authour, dwellyng nigh unto ye riuere Coquet yn Northumberlande, thysse yere thycarnacon of our Lorde, MDCCCXXXXXVIIII.) 4o. [97 leaves printed on one side only. A very curious and original work and one of the chief rarities of the angling bibliophile's collection. It was both printed and illustrated by the author, and has remained anonymous hitherto, but the author's name is now attached to it, with his permission. Only forty copies were struck off for private circulation. It is partly historical and practical, partly legendary and poetical, and the illustrations, which are numerous, consist of admirable etchings, woodcuts, designs coloured by hand, etc. Some of the engravings were employed to adorn the large paper copies of the Newcastle Fishers' Garlands. 1864. We have seen a copy offered in a New York bookseller's catalogue at £30.]
Crisp (William Finch). Crisp's Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Norwich handbook to angling and salt-water fishing, describing the lakes, broads, rivers, decoys, etc., in Norfolk and Suffolk, and how to get to them, together with the baits and hooks in use. Great yarmouth, [1870 & 1876]. 8o.
(*) Cross (Reuben R.). Tying American trout lures. A practical guide to the production of dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, and bucktails for pleasure and profit. xv,55pp. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1936.
(*) Cutcliffe (H.C.). The art of trout-fishing on rapid streams: comprising a complete system of fishing the North Devon streams, and their like; with detailed instructions in the art of fishing with the artificial fly, the fern web, beetle, maggot, worm and minnow, both natural and artificial. South Molton, W. Tucker, 1863. x. 206pp. 12o.
D. (J.)
The Secrets of Angling: teaching, the choicest Tooles Baytes and
seasons, for the taking of any fish, in Pond or Riuer: practised
and familiarly opened in three Bookes. By I.D. Esquire. [Woodcut]
Printed at London by Roger Jackson and are to be sould at his
shop neere Fleet-street Conduit, 1613. 8o.
[30 leaves. Avi to Eiii in eights. The woodcut in title represents
an angler with a fish on his hook, and the label: "Well fayre
the pleasure that brings such treasure," and also a man,
treading on a serpent, with a sphere on his angle, labelled: "Hold
hooke and line then all is mine." There are copies of this
edition in the Bodleian and in the collections of Mr. Denison
and of Mr. Huth. Prince's £6; Corser's £18.]
(*) Daniel
(Rev. W.B.) Rural sports. London.
2 vol. 1801-1. 4o.; London 3 vol. 1801. 8o.; London 3 vol. 1805.
4o.; London. 3 vol. 1812. 8o.;4o & imp. 4o.
[the edition of 1805 is considerably enlarged. It likewise contains
additional plates and proofs of all the larger subjects, which
were originally taken off for separate sale. Some copies have
the plates coloured.]
Daniel (Rev. W.B.) Supplement to the rural sports. London. 1813. 8o., 4o., & imp. 4o. [Contains anecdotes of fish and fishing and an account of the rivers of Great Britain. It reproduces, without acknowledgement, Sir H. Ellis' list of works on angling, and altogether savours over-much of book-making.]
Davies (Rev. E.W.L.)
Fishing; a comprehensive hand-book of the art, including sea-fishing.
With numerous illustrations. London, Dean and Son, [1873.] 8o.
[One of a series, entitled: "The Champion Handbooks."]
(*) Davy
(Sir Humphrey). Salmonia; or days
of fly-fishing, in a series of conversations. With some account
of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. By an Angler.
London, Murray, 1828. 8o.; second edition, [with six engraved
views], London, 1829. 8o,; 3rd edition, London, 1832. 8o.;
[The last named edition was enlarged by Dr. John Davy, brother
of the author. Some woodcuts are substituted for the engraved
views. 'Salmonia' ranks high in the scale of angling literature
- higher we should say, - (if it were not for the audacity of
the dictum) than it really merits. It lacks the freshness of heart
and simple naivette of style that we look for, first of all, in
a genuine Angling book. The first and second editions were anonymous.
The illustrations were from the author's own drawings. Sir Humphrey
Davy, was born at Penzance, 1778, and died 1829. 'Salmonia' was
reviewed by Sir Walter Scott in the Quarterly Review, 1828. p.503.]
(*) Dawson (George). The pleasures of angling with a rod and reel for trout and salmon. New York, Sheldon, 1876. front. pp. xv. 264. 8o.; Albany, N.Y. 1879. 8o. [Sketches reprinted mostly from the Albany Evening Journal.]
Dawson (T.W.). The trout fisher's guide. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1850. 8o
Denison (Alfred).
A literal translation into English of the earliest known book
on fowling and fishing, written originally in Flemish and printed
at Antwerp in the year 1492. Privately printed for Alfred Denison
[London] 1872. 4o.
[14 leaves, the first blank and last with the device of Chiswick
press. Printed in old English type, with facsimilies of the ancient
woodcuts of angling subjects and the printers' marks, also a reproduction
of the well known Angler from the "Book of St. Albans."
The impression was limited to twenty-five copies. For the Flemish
tract, of which this is a translation, see BOECXKEN.]
(*) Dewar (George A.B.). The book of the dry fly. xii, 238pp. London: Lawrence and Bullen. 1897.
(*) Dick (St. John). Flies and fly-fishing for white and brown trout, grayling and coarse fish: with hints on using the minnow and grasshopper bait. London, Hardwicke, 1873. pp. viii. 154. 8o
Dougall (James Dalziel).
Salmon and trout angling. Edinburgh, Caldwell, Lloyd and Co.,
1841. front. pp. 48. 12o.; 2nd ed Glasgow, John Macleod ... 1843.
front. pp.48. 12o.
[The second is merely the first with a new title page.]
(*) Dryden (Adam). Hints to anglers. Illustrated with maps. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1862.
(*) Edmonds (Harfield H. and Norman N. Lee). Brook and river trouting. A manual of modern North Country methods. With coloured illustrations of flies and fly-dressing materials. 106pp. London: By the author. N.d.
Elliot (Henry). The complete angler; showing how to take the best kinds of fish: to which is added a guide to bottom-fishing and a correct list of rivers, canals and ponds, (in the vicinity of London) where fish are to be found; also the proper tackle and baits required, the laws of angling, hints to anglers, etc. London, Elliot. [1856?] front. pp.28. 8o. [A sixpenny brochure, termed "Elliot's complete angler" on the cover.]
(*) Englefield (James) pseud ("Red Quill"). Dry fly fishing for trout and grayling. With some advise to a beginner in the art. 211pp. London: Horace Cox. 1908.
Ephemera, pseud. [i.e. Edward Fitzgibbon] A handbook of angling: teaching fly-fishing, trolling, bottom-fishing, and salmon fishing; with the natural history of river fish, and the best modes of catching them. By Ephemera, of "Bell's Life in London." London, Longman, 1847. pp.xii. 363. 8o.; Second edition, improved and extended, 1848. pp. xii. 361. 8o.;
(*) Ephemera,
pseud. [i.e. Edward Fitzgibbon] Book
of the salmon: in two parts. Part I. The theory and principles
of fly-fishing for salmon, with lists of salmon flies for every
good giver in the Empire. Part II. The natural history of the
salmon, all its known habits described, and the best way of artificially
breeding it explained. Usefully illustrated with numerous coloured
engravings of salmon flies and salmon fry. By Ephemera ... assisted
by Andrew Young, of Invershin, manager of the Duke of Sutherland's
salmon fisheries. London, Longman, 1850. pp.xvi. 242. 9 plates.
16o.
[These two works are highly esteemed. The chapters on fly-making
in the former are unusually clear and comprehensible.]
Ettingsall (Thomas). The green bank; or, an hour's amusements for the young angler. Third edition. Dublin: printed by James Charles. 1850. pp. 12. 8o[A rhymed treatise on the sport including an excellent list of Irish flies.]
(*) Evans
(W.) The art of angling, or complete
fly-fisher: describing the different kinds of fish, their haunts,
... also, observations on the breeding of carp; and the regulation
of pools and ponds... New edition, revised and corrected. Uxbridge,
Lake, 1820. front. pp. xii. 95. 12o.; London, J. Richardson; Uxbridge
[printed]. (n.d.) pp. xii. 95. 12o.
[Another case of metempsychosis: Bowlker's "Art of angling,"
with a few verbal changes and come transposition. The London issue,
without date, is the edition of 1820 with a new title-page.]
Facts Facts and useful hints relating to fishing and shooting: being a collection of various methods for capturing birds, beasts, vermin and fish; together with a great variety of recipes of all kinds useful to the fisherman and sportsman etc. Edited by I.E.B.C[ox]. London, H. Cox, 1866. 8o.; 2nd ed. enlarged and revised. 1867 pp.iv. 188 8o.; 3rd ed. 1874. 8o.
Fairfax (Thomas). The complete sportsman; or, country gentleman's recreation: containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game-cocks, with the best methods of fighting them; ...of angling in all its various branches, etc. London, J. Cooke, [circa 1760] front. pp. 240. 12o.; other editions: (n.d.), 1762, 1764, 1766, 1774, 1793, 1795, 12o.
Family. The complete family piece and country gentleman and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I containing ... ii. Cautions, rules and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, etc. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. London. J. Roberts. 1736. pp. xii. 456 & Index; 2nd ed. London, 1737. 8o.; 3rd ed., improved. London, Rivington, 1741. 8o.;
(*) Fisher, Major A.T. Rod and river fly-fishing for salmon, trout, and grayling. xvi. 375pp. London: Richard Bentley and Son.
(*) Fisher
(Paul), pseud. [i.e. W.A. Chatto]
The angler's souvenier. By P. Fisher, Esq., assisted by several
eminent piscatory characters; with illustrations by Beckwith and
Topham. London, Tilt, 1835. Title, pp. x. 192, plates. 8o; London,
H.G. Bohn. 1845 & 1847. 8o
[The copies issued by Bohn are of the first impression, with Mr.
Bohn's name in place of Tilt's, on the engraved title-page. The
book has several woodcut page borders which are used throughout,
and many neat engravings on copper. It was written by Mr. Chatto,
who contributed to the Newcastle "Garlands," and was
also the author of the "History of wood engraving, with illustrations
by Jackson"; "Facts and speculations on the history
of playing cards," and "Scenes and recollections of
fly-fishing in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland."
The work is clever and caustic, and contains a critique of several
of the angling books of the day.]
Fishing. Fishing and hunting. The art and cunning of hunting the hart, stag, etc.... The art of fishing and sundry curious baits, viz. worms, flies, pastes, etc ... and how to procure and keep them for fishing; how to bring the fish to any part of the pond; to make worms for bait come out of the ground; the artificial cad-fly; how to take the fish in the night; the best time to angle in, etc. Price 6d. London, Thomas Bailey, [1720?] pp. 64. 8o
-------------
The fishing gazette. The journal of the angler, fisherman, managers
of aquariums, etc. of Great Britain. In progress. London, 1877,
etc. fol.
[A weekly journal, wholly devoted to fish and fishing, and very
discreetly conducted by its present proprietor and editor, Mr.
R.B. Marston.]
(*) Forester (Frank). see William Henry Herbert .
Foster (David). The scientific angler. Being a general and instructive work on artistic angling. 247pp. New York: Orange Judd Co. 1883.
(*) Francis
(Francis). A book on angling, being
a complete treatise on the art of angling in every branch, with
explanatory plates, etc. London, Longmans, 1867. pp. xiii. 429.
15 plates. 8o.; second edition, revised and much enlarged. Longmans,
1867. front. pp. xv. 472, 16 plates. 8o.;
[The steel engraving added as a frontispiece to the second and
subsequent editions, gives excellent likenesses of Mr. Francis
and his Gillie.]
(*) Franck
(Richard). Northern Memoirs, calculated
for the Meridian of Scotland. Wherein most or all of the Cities,
Citadels, Seaports, Castles, Forts, Fortresses, Rivers and Rivulets
are compendiously described. Together with choice collections
of various discoveries, remarkable observations, theological notions,
political axioms, national intrigues, polemick inferences, contemplations,
speculations, and several curious and industrious inspections,
lineally drawn from antiquaries, and other noted and intelligible
persons of honour and eminency. To which is added, the Contemplative
and Practical Angler, by way of diversion. With a narrative of
that dextrous and mysterious art experimented in England, and
perfected in more remote and solitary parts of Scotland. By way
of dialogue.
Writ in the year 1658, but not till now made publick, by Richard
Franck, Philanthorpus. Plures mecat gula quam gladius.
London, Printed for the Author. To be sold by Henry Mortclock,
at the Phenix, in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1694. pp. xxxix. 304.
8o; then Edinburgh: Archibald Constable. 1821.
Froggott (W.)
The fly-fisher's pocket companion. Manchester, Guardian office,
(n.d.); W. Fraggott, 1861. s. sh. fol.
[A broadside giving in a tabular form a very useful list of fly-casts
for every season and all descriptions of weather. Not originally
intended for publication, but solely for the use of the "Manchester
Entomological Angling Society."]
G. (C.)
The Secrets of angling; imparting the best and choicest experiments
for taking all sorts of fish, with fly, worm, paste and other
baits; also to known their haunts and how to angle for them in
all waters and weathers. By C.G. a Brother of the Angle. London.
Printed and sold by A. Baldwin at the Oxford Arms in Warwick land.
1705. 24 pp. 16o
[A compilation, rather than an original work, and not to be confounded
with the poetical work of John Dennys. It has become scarce. Copies
were included, with those of other tracts having separate titles
and pagination but consecutive signatures, in a volume with a
collective title, issued in 1704 by the same publisher. See FAMILY,
"A Family jewel; or the womans councellor." Corser's
£2 5s.]
Garlick (Theodatus).
A treatise on the artificial propagation of fish, with the description
and habits of such kinds as are the most suitable for pisciculture
.... Also directions for the most successful modes of angling
for such kinds of fish as are herein described. Cleveland, Ohio.
1857. 8o.; Second edition. Cleveland, Ohio, 1880. pp. 128. 8o.
[The second edition has no mention of angling in the title.]
(*) Gentleman. The gentleman angler. Containing short, plain and easy instruction, whereby the most ignorant beginner may, in a little time, become a perfect artist for salmon, salmon-peal, trout ... gudgeon, &c. With several observations on angling, angle-rods and artificial flies; how to chuse the best hair and Indian Grass; of the proper times and seasons for river and pond fishing; when fish spawn and what baits are chiefly to be used. &c. To which is added, The angler's new song: the laws of angling, and the form of a license and deputation for angling. Together with an appendix, containing the method of rock and sea fishing; an alphabetical explanation of technical words ...; choice receipts for dressing fish; and, how to improve barren ground by turning it into fish ponds, etc. By a Gentleman who has made angling his diversion upwards of twenty-eight years. London. A. Bettesworth, 1726. pp.xii. 184. v (Index). 12o.; The second edition, with large additions. London, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1736. title, pp. vi, 200. v. (Index). 12o.;
(*) Gilbert
(William). The angler's delight,
containing the whole art of neat and clean angling; wherein is
taught the readiest way to take all sorts of fish, from the pike
to the minnow, together with their proper baits, haunts, and time
of fishing for them, whether in mere, pond, or river. As also,
The method of fishing in Hackney River, and the names of the best
stands there; with the manner of making all sorts of good tackle,
fit for any water whatsoever. The like never before in print.
By William Gilbert, Gent. London. Printed by H.B. for Christopher
Hussey, at the sign of the Flower-de-luce in Little Britain. 1676.
pp.45. 12o
[Mr. Haslewood thought that there was probably an earlier edition,
from the date of the licence for the press in the Stationers'
Registers, which stands, "with allowance, Oct.20th, 1674.
Roger L'Estrange." No earlier edition, however, is known.
At page 14 the author alludes to barbel frequenting London Bridge,
and his "Method of Fishing in Hackney River," is preluded
thus: "Then go to Mother Gibert's, at the Flower de Luce
at Clapton, near Hackney, and whilst you are drinking a pot of
ale bid the maid make you two or three pennyworth of ground-bait,
and some paste (which they do very neatly and well.)" At
page 40, he adds, "There is an excellent stand in the second
meadow on the left hand, beyond the ferry, under a willow tree,
in the midst of the meddow, by the water side." Amongst the
necessary equipments of an angler he recommends, "A good
coat for all weather; an apron to put your ground-bait, stones
and paste in; a basket to put your fish in; a neat rod of about
4 foot long, in several pieces one within another ; ... and, if
you have a boy to go along with you, a good neat's tongue and
a bottle of Canary should not be wanting: to the enjoyment of
which I leave you." In a subsequent edition the title becomes
as follows:].......then as The young angler's companion. Containing
the whole art of neat and clean angling; ... The like never
before in print. [London] Printed by H.B. for C. Hussey, at the
Sign of the Flower-de-Luce in Little Brittain. 1682. pp. 45. 12o,;
[same title and imprint]. (n.d.) pp. 36. 12o,; [same title]. London,
Fox. 1776. 12o.
[In these editions there is no alteration in the body of the work
beyond the insertion of a paragraph entitled, "To fox fish."
The method consists in the use of what he calls "Oculus India
Berries," and he cautions his readers,"that they practise
not this without a license from the owners, least the whipping-post
or pillery be their reward." Fox's reprint has a frontispiece
borrowed from Lowndes' edition of the "Art of angling,"
by Dr. Brookes. Haworth's sale, 1st ed., £3 3s; 2nd ed.,
£2 6s.]
(*) Glenfin, pseud. The fishing rod; and how to use it: a treatise on the various arts of angling, trolling, spinning and fly-fishing. London, Baily Brothers. (n.d.); and 1860. pp. viii. 87. 12o.; London, Houlston and Wright. 1865. pp. viii. 95. 12o.
(*) Goddard (John and Brian Clark). The trout and the fly. Deluxe edition #14/25. 191pp. Contains one plate of flies. London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1980.
(*) Goodspeed (Charles E). Angling in America: Its early history and literature. Edition #179/795, autographed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1939.
(*) Grey (Sir Edward). Fly fishing. 276pp. London: J.M. Dent and Co. 1899.
Greydrake, pseud. A concise practical treatise on artificial fly-fishing for trout. By Grey Drake, an artificial fly-fisher of fifty years' experience. London, G. Berger. pp.24. 8o
(*) Grimble (A.). Shooting and salmon flishing. xi, 259pp. London: Chapman and Hall. 1892.
Gryndall (William).
Hawking, Hunting, Fowling and Fishing with the true measures of
blowing. A work right pleasant and profitable for all estates,
who so loueth it to practise, and exceeding delightfull, to refresh
the irksomness of tedious time. Whereunto is annexed, the manner
and order in keeping of hawkes, their diseases and cures: and
all such speciall poynts, as any wise apppertaine to so gentlemanlike
qualitie. Now newly collected by W.G. Faulkener. Publicum comodum
priuato preferendum. Imprinted at London by Adam Islip, and are
to be sold by Richard Oliue. 1596. 4o.
[Black letter. A-L in fours. A reproduction of the Book of St.
Albans with considerable variations. There are separate title
pages to "Fowling" and to "Fishing." The latter:
"A briefve treatis of fishing, with the art of angling. Wherein
is contained the perfect making of all maner of implements appertaining
to that exercise: the diuers and severall baytes for euery kind
of fish, with the best times of the yeare for taking them,"
The writer says "I meane to discribe these disportes and
games, to find the best of them as truely as I could, and altogether
the right noble and worthie Duke of Yorke, late maiser of the
game, hath discribed this arte of fishing, and the rest of these
pleasures and disportes." This assertion, respecting the
Duke of York, stands unconfirmed. The treatise of "Fowling,"
now first added to be book of Sir Tristram is chiefly copied,
without acknowledgement, from "Batman vppon Bartholome his
booke de proprietatibus rerum," 1582, where it forms the
instruction to the twelfth book, "De avibus in general."
Haworth's £4 4s; Donovan's £4 5s.]
(*) H. (R.)
[attributed to Robert Howlett] The
angler's sure guide: or, angling improved, and methodically digested;
shewing, I. When, and how to gather the best materials for fishing
tackle. II. The most proper baits to delude and take all sorts
of fresh-water fish. III. How to make, order, preserve and use
such tackle and baits. IV. The names, natures, etc., and medicinal
vertues of those fish. V. Their haunts, spawning-times and season.
VI. The worst and best seasons and times to angle for them. VII.
The best and aptest ways of taking them by angling, etc. VIII.
The various and choicest ways of dressing 'em. IX. How to make,
store, order and preserve fish ponds, stews and fish. X. Wherein
the angler is punishable by law, if he invade another's right
by angling. XI. How the angler may lawfully defend himself, if
wrongly disturbed in his angling. XII. Some presidents of licenses
to angle in another's fishery. Together with many other useful
and pleasant varieties, suitable to the recreation of angling.
Adorned with copper cuts. By R.H. Esq., near 40 years a Practitioner
in the Art. London. Printed by J.H. for G. Conyers at the Ring,
and T. Ballard at the Rising Sun, in Little-Brittain. 1706. front.,
plate of fish, pp. vii. 296. 8o.
[Generally attributed to Robert Howlett. It should have had greater
merit on the score of originality had it preceded Chetham's 'Vade
Mecum,' to which it bears a somewhat close resemblance. There
is an imitative pedantry too in the Preface (a mosaic of English
and Latin) savouring overmuch of the above named type. Whether
this writer be identical with the R.H. of "The school of
recreation," and "The Royal pastime of cockfighting"
is uncertain. There is certainly little or no similarity between
the above work and the angling treatise included in the "School
of Recreation." The running title is "Angling improved,
or profit and pleasure mix'd together."]
(*) Hale (Captain). How to dress salmon flies. A treatise on the methods of tying the various kinds of salmon flies with illustrated directions and containing the dressings for forty flies. xi. 123. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co.. 1892.
(*) Halford (Frederic M.) Floating flies and how to dress them. A treatise on the most modern methods of dressing artificial flies for trout and grayling with full illustrated directions and containing ninety hand-coloured engravings of the most killing patterns together with a few hints to dry-fly fishermen. 137pp. London: Scribner and Welford. 1886.
(*) Halford (Frederic M.). Modern development of the dry fly. The new dry fly patterns, the manipulation of dressing them and practical experiences of their use. 219pp. London: George Routledge and Sons. 1910.
(*) Halford (Frederik M.) Dry fly fishing in theory and practice. xii. 289. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. 1889.
(*) Halford (Frederik M). Dry fly entomology. A brief description of leading types of natural insects serving as food for trout and grayling with the 100 best patterns of floating flies. Edition deluxe # 55/100. Two volumes. London: Vinton and Co. 1897.
(*) Hamilton (Edward). Recollections of fly fising for salmon, trout, and grayling, with notes on their haunts, habits and history. xi,190pp. New York: Orange Judd. 1885.
Hampton (J. Fitzgerald) Modern angling bibliography books published on angling, fisheries, fish culture from 1881 to 1945. 99pp. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd.
(*) Hansard
(George Agar). Trout and salmon fishing
in Wales. London, Longman. 1834. pp. xix. 223. 8o.
[A woodcut of "Salmon leap at Pont Aberglasllyn" is
on the title. The book "is a perfect gazetteer of every lake
and stream in the Principality ... no angler should go into Wales
without taking [it] in his pocket," says Mr. Chatto in his
"Angler's souvenier."]
(*) Harding (Col. E. W). The flyfisher and the trout's point of view. New light on flyfishing theory and practice. 208pp. London: Seeley Service. 1931.
(*) Hardy (John James). Salmon fishing. xii. 169pp. London: Country Life Ltd. 1907.
Harris ( J.R.). An angler's entomology. 268pp. Dustjacket. London: Collins
Hart-Davis (Captain H.V.). Chats on angling. With illustrations by the author. 110pp. London: Horace Cox.
Haslewood (Joseph).
See Barnes (Dame J.), The book, etc. 1810.
[The "Censura Literaria," 1805-6, vol. x., p. 113, contains
an article, entitled "Fishing," by Mr. Haslewood, in
which Duncombe's translation of Vaniere is given in full.]
(*) Henshall (James A. M.D.) Book of the Black bass: comprising its complete scientific and life history; together with an explicit and purely practical treatise on angling and fly-fishing, and a full and detailed description of all tools, tackle and implements used in its capture. By James A. Henshall, M.D. "I am, Sir, a brother of the angle." Izaak Walton. New York, Orange Judd Company, 1881, 12o.
Henzell (H.P.). Fishing for sea trout. 147pp. London: Adam and Charles Black. 1949.
(*) Herbert (Henry William) Supplement to Frank Forester's fish and fishing on the United States and British Provinces of North America. 8vo., New York: Stringer and Townsend. First edition. 1850. Original red cloth, gilt, rebacked. With original spine laid down; some internal foxing, but a very food copy. $125
(*) Herbert (Henry William) [pseud. "Frank Forester"]. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of th United States, and British Provinces of North America. Illustrated with fou plates and numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley. First edition. Original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt tilting on spine, spine sunned with half-inch chipping to head, internally fine, tight and crisp.
(*) Herbert, Henry William (Frank Forester). Complete manual for young sportsmen. By Frank Forester. Illustrated, including a full page plate of trout flies. 8vo. New York: Stringer and Townsend. 1856.
(*) Hewitt (Edward Ringwood). Secrets of the salmon. xvii. 155. Limited editions #66/780. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1922.
(*) Hewitt (Edward R.). Hewitt's nymph fly fishing. New York: The Marchbanks Press.
(*) Hill (Frederick). Salmon fishing. The greased line on Dee, Don and Earn. 98pp. London: Chapman and Hall. 1948.
(*) Hills (John Waller). A summer on the test. London: Philip Allan. n.d. #56/300 autographed. Three quarter bound in red leather and cloth.
(*) Hodgson (W. Earl). Salmon fishing with a frontispiece by Joseph Farquharson, a facsimile in colours of a model set of flies for Scotland, Ireland, England, and Wales, illustrations of angling scenes characteristic of these parts of the United Kingdom, and pictures of salmon passes. London: Adam and Charles Black. 1906. xi, 7 color plates, 314pp. London: Adam and Charles Black. 1906.
(*) Holberton (Wakeman). The art of angling. How and where to catch fish. 96pp. New York: Dick and Fitzgerald. 1887.
(*) Hofland (T.C.) The British angler's manual; or, the art of angling in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland: with some account of the principal rivers, lakes and trout-streams in the United Kingdom; with instructions in fly-fishing, trolling and angling at the bottom, and more particularly for the trout. Embellished with numerous engravings on steel and wood, from original pictures and drawings by the author. London, 1839. front.. pp. xvi. 410. 8o.; 1841. 8o.; revised and enlarged by E. Jesse, [with memoir of the author.] London, Bohn, 1848. pp. xxxii. 448. 8o.
(*) Holden (Geo. Parker). Streamcraft, and angling manual. xiv, 264pp. Cincinatti: Stewart and Kidd Company. 1919.
(*) Howitt
(Samuel). See Angler. The angler's
manual ... Embellished with twelve plates ... by S. Howitt. 1808.
[Howitt is said by Bryan ("Dictionary of Painters,")
to have been a self-taught artist, distinguished for his skill
in designing wild animals and hunting for them. He died suddenly
in 1822.]
(*) Howlett (Robert). The angler's sure guide: or, angling improved and methodically digested; shewing ... together with many other useful and pleasant varieties, suitable to the recreation of angling. London: By J.H. for G. Conyers. 1706.
Huish (Robert). The improved British angler, containing the most esteemedmethods of angling for pond and river fish; the baits for each, and how to obtain and preserve them; the choosing of rods and tackle; also, instructions in every branch of fly-fishing; materials for the manufacture of flies; comprising, also, original information on the art of angling. Derby, Richardson [printed]; London, Simpkin and Co., 1838. pp.98. sq.16o.
(*) Isys (Cotswold). Lyra piscatoria. Original lyrics on fish, flies, fishing and fishermen, including poems on all the British freshwater fish. xvi. 173pp. London: Horace Cox. 1895.
(*) Jackson (John, of Tanfield Mill). The practical fly-fisher: more particularly for grayling or umber. London, Farlow; Leeds, Swallow, 1854. 8o.; Second edition. 1862. pp. iv. 57. ii (subscribers). 8o.; [Dedicated to T.H.B. who completed the work after the author's death and has given a brief biography of Jackson, winding up, in tomb-stone fashion, with the assurance that he was "a good husband, an indulgent parent and a kind friend."]
(*) Jacob (Giles). The compleat sportsman. In three parts ... Part III. Of fish and fishing; the most successful methods of angling; the only proper baits, tackle and agreeable seasons for taking all sorts of fish, and the rivers wherein they are to be found; with the statutes relating to fishing, &c, In the Savoy, printed by E. Nutt ... for J. Tonson, etc. 1718. pp.xii.142.iv. 12o.
(*) Jennings (Preston J.). A book of trout flies. Containing a list of the most important American stream insects and their imitations. New York: Crown Publishers. 1935.Slipcased.
Johnson (Arthur Tysilio). In the land of the beautiful trout. 169pp. Four color plates of flies. London: T.N. Foulis. 1907. Ex library copy.
Jones (J.) See Frederic Tolfrey.
(*) Keene
(John Harrington).
The practical fisherman: dealing with the natural history, the
legendary lore, the capture of British fresh-water fish, and tackle,
and tackle-making. Illustrated. London, Bazaar Office. 1881. pp.iv.481.
8o.
[First issued in parts.]
(*) Keene (John Harrington). Fishing tackle its materials and manufacture. A practical guide to the best modes and methods of making every kind of appliance necessary for taking freshwater fish, and for the equipment of the angler and fly fisher. viii. 230pp. London: Ward, Lock and Co. 1886. First edition.
(*) Keene (John Harrington). Fishing and fly-making for trout, etc. 113 plus 14pp advertising. New York: O. Judd Co. 1887.
(*) Keene (John Harrington). Boys own guide to fishing, taackle-making and fish-breeding, being a plain, precise and practical explaination of all that is necessary to be knwon by the young angler. 200pp plus 8 pp advertising. Boston: Lee and Shepard. 1894.
Keill (James). A practical treatise upon angling with small and great rode, shewing the different flies and baits through the various seasons of the year; to which is adjoined fishing in ponds. Edinburgh, 1729. pp. 16. 8o.
(*) Kelson (George M). The Salmon Fly: How to dress it and how to use it. xiv. 510.xlv. London: By the author. 1895.
(*) Kelson (George M.). Tips. 168pp. London: By the author.
Kentish. The Kentish angler; or, the young fisherman's
instructor: shewing the nature and properties of fish which are
generally angled for in Kent; their haunts, spawning times, etc.
Rules and cautions to be observed by young anglers; the proper
method of angling for trout, carp, etc.; worm, minnow, cadis and
maggot fishing; fly-fishing and the preparation of artificial
flies; and an abstract of the laws of angling. By an Experienced
Angler. Canterbury, printed by J. Saffery. 1804. front. pp. 40.
ii (errata). 12o.
[One of the rare local books. Under the head of "roach,"
the author says: "It is really surprising to see the shoals
of roach that come up the river to Fordwich and Sturry; in spawning
time the number is so very great, that it is customary for the
major, jurats, or some of the freemen of that town, and likewise
the gentlemen of Sturry, to catch them with a drag net and make
presents of them to their acquaintances and poor inhabitants of
Fordwich and Sturry. In the year 1782, Mr. Woodrouff, Mr. Pidduck,
two of the jurats, and some of the Freemen, did catch in one draught,
one hundred and twenty bushels of roach, and many of them weighed
two pounds, and some upwards of three pounds a fish." At
page 20 are some "Lines by a gentleman, relative to fishing,
which are too beautiful to be omitted by an angler."]
Kidd (William). Kidd's practical instructions
in the art of angling; with many novel directions for the better
enjoyment of the "gentle art:" adapted to the use of
young, as well as experienced anglers... Illustrated by picturesque
engravings. London, W. Kidd. 1820. pp. 36. 12o.
[The frontispiece of a gentleman in tartan and a lady in evening
dress, has a quotation from the "Sportsman's dictionary"
setting forth that angling is a "particularly pleasant pastime:
to which the presence of one's 'ladye-love' lends a no small additional
charm."]
(*) Kirkbride
(John). The Northern
angler; or, fly-fisher's companion. Carlisle [printed]. London.
1837. pp. xvi. 124. 12o.; [with new title page:] London, R. Groombridge,
C. Tilt. 1840. 12o.;London: R. Groombridge. 1860. 4th edition,
London and Carlisle. [1861]. pp. xv. 112. 12o.
[Castigated by Mr. H.R. Francis in "The fly-fisher and his
library."]
(*) Knox (A.E.) Autumns on the Spey. With four illustrations by Wolf. London, Van Voorst. 1872. front. pp. viii. 171. 8o. [Note: this is Knox's own copy with margin notes made by Knox.]
Kresz (C. Aine). Le pêcheur Français
traité de la pêche à la ligne en eau douce,
etc. Paris, chez l'auteur, fabricant d'ustensiles de pêche
et de chasse. 1818. 8o.; Deuxième éd. 1830. front.,
pp.x. 415, plates; ...
[One of the best French works on the subject. C.B. Pigareau issued
an edition,"Revu et augmenté," in 1828. (see
Pigareau). The Sporting Magazine for 1828 & 1829 (vols. xxiii
& xxiv, N.S.) contains five articles with plates of flies,
which are translated recerpts from this work. The editor prefaces
them with a lame story having "quite regardless of expense"
acquired a MS. "Treatise of angling as practised in France,"
written by "Kresz, the younger."]
(*) LaBranch (George M). The dry fly and fast water. Fishing with the floating fly on American trout streams, together with some observations on fly fishing in general. vi. 218. New York: Charles Scribner's. 1914.
Lathy (Thomas Pike). The angler; a poem, in ten
cantos: with proper instructions in the art, rules to choose fishing
rods, lines, hooks, floats and baits, and to make artificial flies;
receipts for pastes, c., and in short, every article relating
to the sport. By Piscator, London. Printed for W. Wright, 46,
Fleet-street; and M. Iley, I, Somerset-street, Portman-square.
1819. pp. xxi. 234. portrait and woodcuts. 8o.; [with new title
page:]......then printed as Lathy
(Thomas Pike). The
angler; a poem in ten cantos. Comprising proper instructions,
etc. Embellished with upwards of twenty beautiful woodcuts. By
T.P. Lathy, Esq. London: printed for J. H. Burn, Maiden-lane,
Convent Garden, 1820, 8o.; [with another new title page:] London:
printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, paternoster-row. 1822.
8o.
[This book is one of the worst instances of literary appropriation
on record. It was palmed off on Gosden, the sporting bookseller,
whose portrait "engraved from a painting by A. Cooper, A.R.A."
is prefixed.... Besides the vellum copy, alluded to above, twenty
copies were printed on thick and large paper. Dr. Bethune says
in his "Waltonian Library," "I have one in 4to."]
(*) Leisenring, James E. Color and material book. Privately compiled. Signed "Presented to my friend Pete, March 8, 1940 to study his colors, materials, etc. - James E. Leisenring" Book contains color chart, complete listing and samples of colored wool, hackles, wild game hen, phesant, peacock quill, raffia, tying silk, a variety of dubbings, dyed herls, and game birds. Leather booklet, slipcased. May be the only one of its kind. 30 color pages
(*) Leonard (J. Edson). Flies. Their origin, natural history, tying , hooks, patterns and selections of dry and wet flies, nymphs, streamers, salmon flies for fresh and salt water in North America and the British Isles, including a dictionary of 2200 patterns. 340pp. New York: A.S. Barnes. 1950.
(*) List. A list of natural flies that
are taken by trout, grayling and smelt in the streams of Ripon.
Ripon, W. Harrison, 1853. pp. x. 129, viii plates of flies. 12o.;
[with fresh title-page and Addenda, as:]......... List. British angling flies. London, Simpkin; Ripon,
harrison. 1862. Title, pp. i-vii. iii-ix. 154, plates 12o.
[ A plate of minnow tackle accompanies the addenda. The work is
by Michael Theakston and is praised by Kingsley in his "Chalk
stream studies."]
M. (L.) [attributed to Leonard Mascall]. A Booke of Fishing with Hooke & Line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie Engines and Trappes to take Polecats, Buzards, Rattes, Mice and all other kindes of vermine and beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all Warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L[eonard] M[ascall]. [Woodcut of fisher and fowler.] London, Printed by John Wolfe, and are to be solde by Edwarde White dwelling at the little North doore of Paules at the Signe of the Gunne. 1590. B.L. pp. 93 and folding plate. 4o. Other editions: 1596, 1600, & 1606. 4o. [The first part, containing the Treatise of Fishing (clumsily taken and marred in the transfer, from the "Book of St. Albans") ends at page 50 in the edition of 1590; the second part at page 93. The folding plate represents "The crow-net set or bent." A copy of this first edition is in the British Museum. Sold at Harworth's: ed. 1596 £1 19s. 8d.; ed 1600 £2 12s. 6d.]
(*) Mackintosh (Alexander). The Driffield angler; in two parts: containing, descriptions of the different kinds of fresh-water fish, and the best methods of taking them in rivers, lakes and fish-ponds; with full directions for baits and the manner of making artificial flies for every month in the season, etc. Gainsborough. Printed for the author, and sold be H. Mozley etc. [1806] port., pp. xi. 346. 8o.; then as: ......Mackintosh (Alexander) The modern fisher, or Driffield angler; in two parts: containing descriptions, etc. Derby, Henry Mozeley, (n.d.) pp. 249 and leaf of contents. 12o.; [with new title-page:] 1821, front., pp.249 and leaf of contents.
Man. The young man's companion. (The art of angling,
or the contemplative man's recreation.) London. 1703. 12o.
[This may be described as a sandwich of pastime and piety, the
one following the other as inevitably as ham follows beef at a
picnic. Our readers shall taste its flavour. "Your tackling
being ready, go to the river and find a place (if you can) that
is between two or three yards in depth, near the bank, that hath
a gravelly or indifferent smooth bottom. Cast in half your grains
by handfulls, having first dipped the bag in the water to wet
them.
Now when you happen to catch more Dace and Shallows and Roches
than you can spend while they are sweet, you may give the rest
to the poor; taking King Zebulon for your example; who saith (according
as I find it written in the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs),
I fished for my Father's Household, till we came into Egypt; and
for pity's sake I gave my fishing to every stranger that I met
with.... {this continues on for a full page in Bibliotheca
Piscatoria}.
(*) Marbury (Mary Orvis). Favorite flies and their histosries. With many replies from practical anglers to inquiries concerning how, when, and where to use them. Illustrated by thirty-two hand-coloured plates of flies six engravings of natural insects, and eight reproductions of photographs. viii. 522pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1892.
(*) March (J.) The jolly angler; or water-side companion. Containing an account of all the best places for angling, the means used to obtain permission, as well as an account of the different sorts of fish contained therein; the tackle, baits, and other requisites to form an expert angler: with a correct description of tying hooks, making artificial flies, repairing tackle, etc. The whole illustrated with eighty wood engravings. By J. March. London: published by J. March, engraver on wood; Effingham Wilson and B. Steill. (1833). front., pp. vi. ii. 96. 8o.; second edition [same imprint] (1836). pp. 104, [some copies] pp. 106. 8o,; third edition [same imprint.] pp. 106. 8o.;
Markham (Gervase). The English husbandman, drawne
into two bookes. ... [The "Art of angling" (as the running
title has it) also possesses a separate register and title-page:]
The pleasvres of princes, goodmens recreations: containing a discourse
of the generall art of fishing with the angle or otherwise; and
of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the
choyce ... of the fighting cocke. Being a worke neuer in that
nature handled by any former author. London: printed by T.s. for
John Browne, 1614. B.L. title, pp. 51. 4o. [with fresh title-page]
1615; London, printed by John Norton, for Henry Tavnton, in St.
Dunstons Church-yard, in Fleete-street. 1635; [some copies] London,
printed by John Norton, for William Sheares, and are to be sould
at the Harrow in the new Exchange and neere Yorke-house in the
Strand, 1635. title, pp. 54 [or, when issued separately] pp. vi,
(title and table), 54. 4o.
["The English husbandman" is the title of the complete
work, but the first book and also the second part of the second
book were sold separately. In this form they have mostly come
down to us. The Huth library contains a complete copy of the edition
of 1613-14, and the British Museum one of that dated 1635. The
"art of fishing" is a prose version of "The secrets
of angling" by John Dennys and was also used by Markham in
his "Country Contentments," 1631. Its origin may account
for a higher and more poetical tone than is generally observable
in the writings associated with Markham's name.]
Markham (Gervase) The young sportsman's delight
and instructor in angling, fowling, hawking, hunting, ordering
singing birds, hawks, poultry, conies, hares, dogs, etc., and
how to cure them. By G.M. Sold at the Ring in Little Britain.
Price 6d. front., pp. iv. 138. 24o.
[With a second title as follows:]
A compleat and experienc'd angler, in two parts: or, the anglers
vade-mecum, shewing the best way to make fishing rods, lines,
floats, plummets, hooks, artificial flies, panniers and other
tackle; and how to find the haunts of fish, and take them with
all sorts of baits, as well artificial and natural, in all sorts
of water. To make divers sorts of oils and ointments exceeding
the oil of osprey. The second part containing directions to take
fowl, and to order singing birds, hawks, hares, poultry, and dogs.
Printed for G. Conyers, at the Ring of Little Britain. [cir. 1712.]
front., pp. iv. 138. 24o.
[Some new matter is added to this edition of "The young sportsman's
instructor," and we are assured, at the end, that the "book
contains curiosities and secrets that never were in print in any
book of angling whatever." The frontispiece has five rude
representations of fish and the little cut of the angler used
as a frontispiece in the early editions. Page 127 is headed "Curiosities."
The first is "To make sport with a pike or jack," and
another (p. 132) "An angler's directions to preserve orchards,"
which consists in raising a smoke with "mucky straw,"
when the wind is easterly, so that it "may be carried over
the whole orchard." This is an excerpt from the "Epitome
of Husbandry," p.38. The book is very rare and we only know
of the existence of one perfect copy which is now in the Denison
collection.]
Martin (Rev. James). The angler's guide; the most complete and practical ever written. Containing every instruction necessary to make all who may feel disposed to try their skill masters of the art "...To which is added a graphic and laughable story, entitled, "The three jolly anglers." London, G. Cox. 1854. pp. viii. 191. 8o.
Martin (John William). "The Trent Otter" of coarse fish angling being a practical treatise on the Nottingham, the Sheffield, the Thames, and the Ouse and Norfolf styles of fishing. The experiences of a lifelong angler, who has fished with and now describes the methods of experts in twenty-five different rivers and districts. xiv.263pp. 8vo. London: W. Brendon and Son. 1909.
Maston (Walter J.) Salmon and trout fishing in Ireland. The angler's pocketbook and guide. vii. 199. Dublin: Browne and Nolan. 1910. Ex library copy.
(*) Maxwell (Sir Herbert). Salmon and sea trout. How to propagate, preserve and catch them in British waters. xii. 272. London: Lawrence and Bullen Ltd. 1898.
(*) Maxwell (Sir Herbert). Fishing at home and abroad. London: London and Countries Press. 1913.
(*) McClelland ( H.G).. The trout fly dresser's cabinet of devices or how to tie flies for trout and grayling fishing. With eighty illustrations. 137pp. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 1899.
(*) Medwin (Thomas). The angler in Wales, or days and nights of sportsmen. In two volumes. London: Richard Bentley. 1834.
(*) Moffat (A.S.) The secrets of angling. xii, 326pp. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1865.
(*) Morgan (George). The new complete sportsman; or, the town and country gentleman's recreation. Containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity the whole arts of, and particulars respecting ... together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to horse-feeders, grooms, and others, respecting the dieting of horses, riding a hunting match, etc. Being absolutely the newest and most complete book on the subject. London, Alex Hogg. (c. 1710) front., pp. iv. 302 [202]. 12o.
(*) Mosley (Martin E.). Insect life and the management of a trout fishery. x,112pp. London: George Routledge and Sons. 1926.
(*) Mottram (J.C.) Fly fishing: Some new arts and mysteries. London: Field and Queen (Horace Cox) Ltd. c.1914. 272pp. Ex library copy.
(*) Needham
(T.H.) The complete
sportsman: containing a compendious view of the ancient and modern
chase ... The ancient forest and game laws ... Angling; and the
laws relating to fish. With every instruction and information
relative to the diversions of the field. London, Simpkin and Marshall,
1817. pp. 312. 12o.
["Angling," "The laws relating to fish," pp.
300-11. Printed at Liverpool by Johnson.]
Neil (A.) Neil's complete angler; or the
whole art of fishing; Containing every necessary instruction for
that pleasure and fashionable amusement. To which is added a correct
abstract of the several Acts of Parliament with respect to angling.
London: printed and published by A. Neil. Chalton Street, Sommers
Town. (1804). 8o.; 15th ed., improved. London, T.Hughes. (n.d.)
pp.40. 8o.;...
[The earlier editions, usually contain 38 pages, and are undated.
The engraved frontispiece of fish and anglers is dated 1804.]
(*) Newland
(Rev. Henry). The
Erne; its legends and its fly-fishing. London, Chapman and Hall,
1851. 8o.
Engraved title, frontispiece of flies, pp.xvi. 395, with map and
four woodcuts.]
Nobbes (Robert). The complete troller, or, the
art of trolling. With a description of all the utensils, instruments,
tackling, and materials requisite thereto: with rules and directions
how to use them. As also a brief account of most of the principal
rivers in England. By a Lover of the Sport. [The Dedicatory Epistle
is signed Ro. Nobbes.] London, printed by T. James, for Tho. Helder
at the Angel in Little Britain. 1682. pp.xx.78. f. i. (contents).
8o.; Reprinted in facsimile, [1790?] 8o.
[Also appended to "The angler's pocket-book," with a
separate title:]
(*) Norris (Thaddeus). The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making and rod-making; and directions for fish breeding. To which is appended Dies Piscatoriae, describing noted fishing places and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with 80 engravings on wood. Philadelphia, Butler, 1864. front., pp.604. 8o.; New edition, with a supplement, containing descriptions of salmon rivers, inland trout fishing, etc. Philadelphia, Butler; London, Sampson Low, 1865. pp.701. 8o.
North (Hon. Roger). A discourse of fish and fish
ponds. Done by a Person of Honour. London, E. Curll, 1713 &
1714. 8o.; The second edition. London, E. Curll, 1715. pp.iv.94.ii.
(contents). 12o.; London, 1773. pp.80.4o.
[The last named edition has the author's name on the title-page.
The discourse was appended to "The Gentleman farmer,"
1726. 8vo.; and to Albin's "Esculent fish." 1794. 4to.
(See GENTLEMAN and ALBIN). A French translation was published
at Paris in 1717 under the title: "Traité des etangs,
des viviers, canaux, etc.]
(*) Ogden ( ) Ogden on fly tying, etc. Cheltenham, Norman, 1879. front., errata slip, pp.iv.iv.89, plate (fly vise). 8o.
(*) O'Gorman (George). The practice of angling, particularly as regards Ireland. 2 vol. Dublin, Curry, Jun and Co. 1845. Second edition 1855
(*) Oliver
(Stephen), pseud. [i.e. William Andrew Chatto.] Scenes and recollections of fly-fishing, in
Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland. By Stephen Oliver,
the younger, of Aldwark, in Com. Ebor. London, Chapman and Hall.
1834. pp.iv.212. 12o.
[An interesting volume, illustrated with head and tail pieces,
in wood. It contains two songs, "The fisher's call,"
and "The angler's invitation," which were afterwards
included in the "Newcastle Fishers' Garlands." In the
appendix the author gives a well-written review of the older angling
literature.]
Ongaro (Antonio). Alceo, favola pescatoria...
non piu posta in luce. Venetia, 1582. 8o.; Venetia, 1587. 12o.;
[Edited by A. Caraffa], venetia, 1603. 12o.; Nuova edizione, Londra,
1737. 12o.
["This work," says Mr. Blakey in his 'Historical sketches
of the angling literature of all nations,' "gives a very
lively description of fishing, of the nature of the rivers and
their scenery in Italy, of the different kinds of bait used for
fish of various sorts, and of their instincts, migrations and
habits. It is in this publication, as far as our knowledge extends,
that we first meet with the statement that the trout (trota) pair
in the months of July and August, and that the conjugal union
seems to be cemented by a powerful sympathy and affection. This
writer likewise states the fact, well ascertained by modern observers,
that there is a regular kind of domestic government maintained
among this class of fish, the largest apparently assuming supreme
and despotic authority... The Italian author is somewhat at a
loss to divine, etc." After this circumstantial statement
our readers will be surprised to learn that the "Alceo"
is a play in five acts and in verse; that it is a love story of
the most romantic kind in the style of Tasso's 'Aminta,' the pastoral
characters being replaced by fishers; and that the allusions to
the occupations of the interlocutors are of the slightest and
most cursory nature. In other words that Mr. Blakey having been
made a "victim" by some facetious friend, has in turn
deluded a generation of simple anglers and bibliographers.]
(*)Oracle. The oracle of rural life, an
almanac for country gentlemen, for the year 1839, 1840, and 1841.
[Very rare in all it's original three volumes.]
(*) Orvis, (Charles F. and A.N. Cheney). Fishing with the fly. Sketches by lovers of the art, with illuatrations of standard flies. 329pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1883.
Otter, [pseud. H. Jervis Alfred] The modern angler, containing instructions in the art of fly- fishing, spinning, and bottom-fishing. With an account of the best places for angling, including the Thames, Lea, etc. London, Alfred and Son, 1864, 1866, 1870, 1876, 1878. 12o.
Ovington (Ray). How to take trout on wet flies and nymphs. xii, 231pp. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1951, 1952 (First edition).
Pearson (Edwin). The angler's garland, and fisher's
delight, for 1870. A right merrie wreath of rare old songs, secrets
and suggestions in the art of angling. Embellished with a few
"canny" woodcuts by that lover of Tyneside, Thomas Bewick,
with a letter by him on salmon fishing in 1824. Selected and arranged
by Edwin Pearson. Westminster, E.Pearson, 1870. pp.24. 4o; the
same for 1871. Westminster, Bickers and Son, 1871. pp.24.4o.
[Selections mainly from the Newcastle garlands with impressions
from the well worn blocks of Bewick. The second number contains
a reprint of "The young sportsman's instructor."]
(*) Phair (Charles). Atlantic salmon fishing. New York: Derrydale Press. 1937. One of 950 copies.
Phillips (John C.). A bibliography of American sporting books. 639pp. New York: James Cummins Bookseller. 1991.
(*) Pictet (F.J). Historie naturelle generale et particuliere des insectes nevropteres. Paris: Chez J.B. Bailliere. 1845.
Pole (Felix J.C.). Haunts and hints for anglers. Fresh water angling: river, lake, mere and canal. 156pp. London: Great Western Railway Company. 1925.
Pollard (Richard). The new and complete angler;
or, universal fisherman: containing the most improved instruction
for, and modern methods, of breeding fish, feeding fish, fishing
rods... Together with cursory remarks, including several curious
and original observations, respecting angling by hand, angling
with the ledger-bait, choice secrets in angling, receipts, seasons
for, and laws respecting,angling, explanation of technical phrases,
etc. By Richard Pollard, Esq. of Clapton, frontispiece representing
a great variety of fishes. London: printed for Alex. Hogg. 1802.
front., pp.70. 8o.
[In his preface, Mr. "Pollard" states that he "is
well apprised of the several publications of the kind, but his
experience has convinced him, that they are not only unnecessarily
voluminous, but defective," &c. After this exordium it
will scarcely be a surprise to the reader to learn that "The
new and complete angler" is all but a literal transcript
to "The true nature of angling" by J.S.]
(*) Pouty (Lorenzo). Fish: Their habits and haunts and the methods of catching them, together with fishing as a recreation. 115pp. Boston: Cupples, Upham and Co. 1883.
Pritchard (W.) The angler's guide to the rivers and lakes of North Wales; with the names of all the fishing stations, arranged in counties in alphabetical order, together with a list of suitable flies for Welsh rivers and lakes; also a map of North Wales, with the fishing stations marked thereon, etc. Wrexham, W. Pritchard, [1864]. pp.7. 8o.; and (n.d.) title., pp.16 map. 8o.;London, Rutledge. 1870. 12o.
(*) Pritt (T.E.) Yorkshire trout flies. 63pp. Leeds: Goodall and Suddick. 1885, then reissued with a new title as:....(*) Pritt (T.E).. North country flies. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. 1886
(*) Pritt (T.E.). The book of the grayling: being a description of the fish, and the art of angling for him, as practised chiefly in the midlands and the north of England. 64pp. Leeds: Goodall and Suddick. 1888.
(*) Pryce-Tannatt. (T.E). How to dress salmon flies. A Handbook for amateurs. xiii. 248. London: Adam and Charles Black. 1914.
Pulman (George P.R.) Vade mecum of fly-fishing for trout; being a concise practical treatise on that branch of the art of angling. London, Longmans, 1841. pp.61. 12o.; Second edition, rewritten and greatly enlarged. London, Longmans, 1846. pp.105. 16o.; London, Longmans, 1851. pp.xii.186. 8o.
(*) Radcliffe (William). Fishing from the earliest times. xvii. 478pp. London: John Murray. 1921. [ an important reference book to the history of angling and fly tying]
(*) Rene, (A. And C. Liersel). Nouveau traite de la Peche. 16 handcoloured engraved plates illustrating hundreds of sporting figures, including birds, dogs, fish, flies, etc. 12mo. Paris: J. Langlume 1865.
Rennie, James. Alphabet of scientific anglling, for the use of beginners. xvi. 136. London: Orr and Smith. 1836.
Reynolds (W.F.R.). With fly only. A book for trout fishermen. xx, 204pp. London: A&C Black. 1928.
(*) Rhead, Louis. American trout stream insects. A guide to angling flies and other aquatic insects alluring to trout ... xix. 177pp. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1916.
(*) Rollo (W. Keith). The act of fly fishing. Practical hints of the sport and choice of tackle and water. 220pp. London: H.F. & C. Witherby. 1931.
Rolt (H.A.). Grayling fishing in south country streams. xvi, 72pp. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 1901.
(*) Ronalds
(Alfred). The fly-fisher's
entomology. Illustrated by coloured representations of the natural
and artificial insect. And accompanied by a few observations and
instructions relative to trout-and-grayling fishing. With nineteen
copper plates. London, Longman, 1836. pp.iv [misprinted viii],
115. 8o.; Second edition. With twenty copper plates. London, Longman,
1839. pp.xii.115. 8o.; Third edition. London, Longman, 1844. pp.xii
[misprinted x], 115. 8o.;
[This work, though in some respects inaccurate, displays a rare
combination of entomological and piscatorial science. The drawings
of the natural fly in juxtaposition with the artificial, are of
great value and nicety. They are on nineteen plates; the remaining
plate, used as a frontispiece, is of fish. New plates were prepared
for the edition of 1862. The Blythe, "A sweet trout-stream
in Staffordshire," was the scene of Ronald's early experience
and on the little bridge, close to the present station, stood
the Observatory. Amongst the midland streams, which he "studied,
was the Dove," where Cotton erst hung up the thick-bodied
fly of more Southern counties, "in his window to laugh at."
In the 3rd edition appears an announcement that the author prepares
for sale the whole series of flies and also supplies a fly-case
of "new construction."]
(*) Ronalds (Alfred). The fly-fisher's entomology. With directions for making the artificial representation of each fly: and a few observations and instructions on trout and grayling fishing. With an introduction by the Right Honourable Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart. Illustrated with engravings, and forty-eight artificial flies in sunken mounts. Two volumes. Limited edition #222/250. Liverpool: Henry Young Sons. 1913.
Roberts (Sir Randal). Trout and grayling. London, H.Cox, 1860. 8o.; then as: ........ The river's side; of the trout and grayling, and how to take them. London, H.Cox, 1866. pp.vii.120. 8o.
Robertson (John). Angling streams and angling quarters in the Scottish Lowlands. With [9] maps and plain directions to trout fishers. Edinburgh. Menzies, 1859. pp.viii.158. 12o.
Robertson (John). The hand-book of angling for Scotland and the Border counties, embracing the practical experience of thirty years' fishing. With maps and routes, &c. London, Houlston and Wright. 1861. pp.xiii.184. 12o.
(*) Roosevelt (Robert Barnwell). Superior fishing; or the Striped bass, Trout and Black bass of the Northern States. Embracing full directions for dressing artificial flies, with the feathers of American birds; an account of a sporting visit to Lake Superior. New York, Carleton, 1865. pp.304. (no vii and viii) 8o.; [with new title page:] 1868. 8o.; 1884 [a keystone book on the use of American bird's feathers for fly tying]
(*) Rosborough (E.H. "Polly"). Tying and fishing the fuzzy nymphs. Limited edition #224/300. New York: Stackpole
S.(J.) The true art of angling; or, the best and speediest
way of taking all sorts of fresh-water fish with the worm, fly,
paste and other baits in their proper seasons; how to know the
haunts of fish and angle for them in all waters and weathers,
at the top, middle and bottom, baiting of the ground and night
baits, oyls, and oyntments, baits natural and artificial; the
several ways of angling; to make oyl of asper, and many rare secrets
never before made publik; containing the whole body of angling,
and mystery of a compleat angler. By J.S., Gent. A Brother of
the Angle. London, printed for George Conyers at the Golden Ring
and John Sprint at the Bell in Little Britain. Price bound 6d.
1696. frontispiece, pp.vi.160. 24o.
[This minute work by an anonymous writer forms one of the marked
features of most angling book collections, partly from its merits
as a manual, but far more from its rarity, only a few copies of
the earlier issues have escaped the wear and tear of time. The
title is followed by an address "To the lovers of angling."]
(*) Sage, (Dean, C.H. Townsend, H.M. Smith, and W.C. Harris). Salmon and trout. x. 417.New York: MacMillan Co. 1902.
(*) Salmon (Richard). Trout flies. 30pp. Limited edition #3/529. New York: Sportsmans Edge Press. 1975. [contains actual samples of materials: hackles, silks, etc.]
(*) Salter (Robert). The modern angler, being a practical treatise on the art of fishing, etc., in a series of letters to a friend. Printed for the author by J. Salter, Oswestry and sold by Mr. Hurst, London. (n.d.) front., pp.123. 12o.; The modern angler, in a series of letters. The Second edition. Oswestry: printed for the author by W. Edwards. 1811. front., title, pp. 134. 12o.
Salter (Thomas Frederick). The angler's guide, or complete
London angler, containing the whole art of angling as practised
in the rivers Thames and Lea, and other waters twenty miles round
London, founded on actual experience: with the art of trolling
for jack or pike. By T.F. Salter, Gent. Rochester terrace. Stoke
Newington. I write from practice not from books arrange. London,
T.Tegg. 1814. pp.xvi.152. woodcuts in text and 3 full page illustrations.
8o.;
The angler's guide, being a complete practical treatise on angling:
containing the whole art of trolling, bottom fishing. fly-fishing
and trimmer angling, founded on forty years' practice and observation.
Second edition, with very considerable additions, local descriptions,
glossary of technical terms and index. Illustrated with wood engravings.
London, T. Tegg, 1815. List of cuts, front., pp.xxxi.317 [misprinted
217]. 8o.;
The angler's guide ... the whole art of trolling, bottom and float
fishing, fly and trimmer angling, for sea, river, and pond fish,
founded on 40 years' practice and experience. Third edition, ...
Embellished with 50 copper plates and wood engravings. London,
T. Tegg, 1815. front., pp.x.xxix.315. 8o.;
(*) Sandeman (Fraser). By hook and by crook. London: Henry Sotheran. 1894. [hand colored plates of salmon flies]
Sang (William). The anglers' pocket dictionary of trout flies, and their synonyms. Barnard Castle: W.Ward, printer, Market-place. [1881?] 40pp. 24o.
(*) Saunders
(James). The compleat
fisherman. Being a large and particular account of all the several
ways of fishing now practised in Europe; with abundance of curious
secrets and niceties in the art of fishing ... also, an account
of all the principal rivers, lakes, &c., in England; and what
kind of fish are more especially fond of them. Collected from
the best authors and from the long experience of James Saunders
Esq. of Newton-Awbery, upon the river Trent. London, W.Mears,
etc. 1724. front., pp.vi.234. 12o.;
[This book was reprinted by Smeeton as "The Fisherman, or
the art of angling made easy... By Guiniad Charfy Esq." See
CHARFY (G.) Saunders is the first angling author who mentions
silk-worm gut, (pp.91-2) but Pepys, in his diary says, (Mar. 18th
1667), "This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of
his angling with a minikin, a gutt-string varnished over, which
keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and
smallness. The secret I like mightily." (Vol. III., p.171.
Edition, 1828.) A writer in the Field, (Jan 2, 1864), on the subject
of silk-worm gut, says: "About three months since, Mr. Geo.
Bowness, of Bellyard, shewed me an advertisement of his grandfather's,
date 1760, announcing that the new article, silk-worm gut, is
to be had there. This pretty nearly fixes the date of its introduction
into the tackle trade."]
(*) Schmookler, Paul (editor) The Salmon Flies of Major John Popkin Traherne 1826-1901. xii. 124pp. Deluxe edition #1/28. Millis: The Complete Sportsman.
(*) Schmookler (Paul) (ed). The Salmon Flies of Major John Popkin Traherne 1826-1901. xii. 124pp. Limited edition #1/300. Millis (MA): The Complete Sportsman. 1993.
(*) Schreiner (William H.) Schreiner's sporting manual. A complete treatise on fishing, fowling, and hunting, as applicable to this country; with full instructions for the management of the dog. Illustrated with numerous engravings. In two parts. Philadelphia: S. Douglas Wyeth. 147pp. 1841.
Scotcher (George). The fly-fisher's legacy, containing
accurate descriptions of all the principal natural flies, that
frequent the water, laid down in such familiar manner that the
angler may readily distinguish them; together with the most successful
method of imitating them, forming the fisherman's Grand Desideratum,
or long wished-for instructor: also an account of sewin, samlet
and salmon-pink fishing, and many useful remarks, not selected
from books, but deduced from many year's real experience and observation.
With engravings of natural flies, coloured from nature. Chepstow:
printed and sold by W. Willett. Sold also by Messrs. Major and
Co., Bristol; Lackington and Co., London, etc. [circa 1800] front.,
pp.44. 8o
[A rare local work which preceded Bainbridge (1816), Carroll (1818),
and Ronalds (1836).] ........Also as The fly fisher's legacy.
London: Honey Dun Press. 1974. Limited edition #327/380. Cased
and bound by A.F.Sismore, in quarter green morocco grained leather,
with gilt lettering.
(*) Scott
(Genio C.) Fishing
in American waters. With 170 illustrations. New York, Harper,
1869. pp.484. 8o,; A new edition, containing parts six and seven,
on Southern and miscellaneous fishes. With numerous illustrations.
New York, Harper Brothers, 1875. pp.539. 8o.
["Trolling among the Thousand Islands," "Fly-fishing
on Massapiqua Lake," "The poetry of angling," etc.,
are among the subjects treated.]
(*) Scrope
(William). Days and
nights of salmon fishing in the Tweed; with a short account of
the natural history and habits of the salmon, instructions to
sportsmen, anecdotes, etc., by William Scrope Esq. Illustrated
by [13] lithographs and [9] wood engravings by L. Haghe, T. Landseer
and S. Williams, from paintings by Sir David Wilkie, Edwin Landseer,
R.A., Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cooke. London,
Murray, 1843. pp.xx.298. 8o.; Second edition. Murray, 1854. pp.xix.298.
8o.
[The second edition, has the woodcuts of the first impression
and two coloured prints of young salmon, the coloured lithographs
being withdrawn. These latter are spirited renderings of very
excellent drawings now in the possession of a collector. Copies
of the first edition are scarce and sell for about £6.]
Sheringham (H. T.) Elements of angling. A book for beginners. xvi, 259 pp. London: Horace Cox. 1908.
(*) Shipley
(William). A true
treatise on the art of fly-fishing, tolling, 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 Fitzgibbon. London, Simpkin, 1838. front., pp.xii.264.
12o.
[A few copies were on large paper, with cuts on India paper.]
(*) Shipley (Malcolm A.). Artificial flies and how to make them. Philadelphia: Spangler and Davis. 1888
(*) Shipley (Malcolm A.). A dictionary of trout and bass flies. Philadelphia: 1898
(*) Shirley (Thomas). The angler's museum; or, the whole art of float and fly fishing. Containing I. The nature and properties of fish in general. II. Rules and cautions to be observed 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. Particulars 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. 12o.: The second edition. To which is prefixed the Sermon of St. Anthony to