PISCATORIAL REMINISCENCES AND GLEANINGS, BY AN OLD ANGLER AND BIBLIOPOLIST. TO WHICH IS ADDED A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON ANGLING.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1835). 1835 1st edition. 16mo (105 x 170mm). Ppxvi,255 + [Ppiv,36] catalogue. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette & text vignettes of fish. Early rebind in half calf. Inner hinges tend, quite worn but strong enough. A good copy with 1838 ownership inscription. A wide-ranging collection of short anecdotes and paragraphs on fish and fishing which the editor had compiled over many years. For instance, there are seventeen pages of notes on pike and pike fishing, taken from many sources. The name of the editor is not given, but the Preface is signed "T.B." In the later edition of 1887 the editor's name is given in full. The catalogue at the rear, contributed by the publisher, William Pickering, has a separate title-page, "Bibliotheca Piscatoria: A catalogue of books upon angling", and is dated 1836. "This Catalogue of Works on Angling will be found more extensive than any hitherto published. It is formed upon Sir Henry Ellis's corrected copy of the List, which he contributed to the British Bibliographer in 1811, and which he kindly lent for the purpose. The various editions of the Treatise of Hawking, Hunting, and Fishing, by Juliana Berners, are described with greater accuracy than by any former bibliographer; and some editions are noticed of which the existence was unknown." The catalogue consists of twenty unpaginated leaves, [Ppiv,36]. .…