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This fascinating book contains a detailed history of fishing in the British Isles, with a brief guide to the natural history of fish. Comprehensive and full of interesting information and detailed illustrations, this is a text that will greatly appeal to anyone with a interest in fishing, and that would make for a wonderful addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: 'The Natural History of Fishes', 'The Popular History of Fishes', 'The Origin and Progress of Angling', 'Angling Apparatus', 'Preliminary Observations on the Practice of Angling', 'Angling Baits Generally', 'Insects Used in Angling', 'Bottom Fishes', et cetera. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of fishing.
Consists of the inventory of a collection of 1014 volumes and 269 pamphlets, formed by John Bartlett and presented to the Library of Harvard College, November 17, 1892. In 1896 the library published a catalogue of the collection, as number 51 of its bibliographical contributions.
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"Mr. Boulenger reckons that there are at least half a million anglers in this country and in this book he has provided the 'well-governed' angler (to use Izaak Walton's phrase) with a guide to the fishes and insects which inhabit our streams and rivers. He describes, with fascinating detail and anecdote, such things as the life of the eel and the salmon, the gruesome habits of lampreys and the ferociousness of the small stickleback. ..." --taken from summary tipped in on front end page.
Excerpt from The Practical Fisherman: Dealing With the Natural History, the Legendary Lore, the Capture of British Freshwater Fish, and Tackle and Tackle Making; Illustrated At the appearance of another treatise on the gentle craft. So many works on this charming subject have been written and published, from Oppian to the present time, that another would seem superfluous, and only capable of vain repetitions. This need not be so, however, and in the following chapters I shall take care that it is not so. A severely practical, careful 7-63m of what is known and proved, and a concise account of what the writer has himself experienced, need not come under the category of vain repetition, and may be useful to many learners seeking those almost Parnassian heights, whence the fully initiated smile at the scofiers and mockers of the art which Byron so ill-naturedly termed that solitary vice. And, indeed, there are several other reasons why a dissertation on practical angling may not be unwelcome. The price of every really capable work on the subject is generally prohibitory to that class of persons who make the art their chief recreation during the intervals of work at the mill or factory, counter or desk. To such what I have to say will I hope at least be interesting, and it is to such chiefly that I shall address myself. It would probably be presumption on my part to suppose I could say anything on so trite a subject which would enlighten those who have the power of consulting a whole library of fishing authors, whose chief merit, however, seems to be prolixity. The importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.