Bibliotheca Piscatoria. A Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries and Fish-Culture with Bibliographical Notes and an Appendix of Citations touching on angling and fishing from old English authors

W. Satchell, London, second edition, 1883. Contemporary three-quarter green calf and boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, red leather spine-labels and gilt spine decoration, marbled endpapers, 8vo,. xxiv, 397 pp. 3158 entries. From the introduction: "The present edition has made a great stride onwards in bulk though the numerical increase, in the works registered, falls far short of the same ratio. It contains nearly six times the matter of its predecessor [the first edition]. But it is in method not in bulk that we claim to have chiefly advanced. Knowing that the value of a bibliography depends, solely, on its precision and accuracy, we have endeavoured to set forth the title of every book registered in its literal form, and to furnish those minute particulars, touching printers, publishers, pagination, illustrations, &c., which serve to shew the successive changes through which the most popular angling books have passed, and enable the collector to prove the completeness of the works in his possession....There are 3158 editions and reprints of 2148 distinct works here registered. The titles and dates of 2465 are given from a personal examination of the books, of which the Denison Collection yielded 1685, the British Museum 482, and other London collections 348. We have accepted 104 on the authority of various friends, possessing or having access to the works described, and have taken 187, principally of Greek and Roman writers, without examination from the Museum catalogue. An ex-library copy with white ink spinenumber, labels on front pastedown endpaper and residue of removed labels on front endpapers, library stamps and accession marks on title-page (recto and verso) and stamps on occasional margins, some old dampstaining to lower parts of boards, joints pulled, contents mildly agetoned, Fair.