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BIBLIOGRAPHY -- [SMITH, John Russell.] A Bibliographical Catalogue of English Writers on Angling and Ichthyology, London: John Russell Smith, 1856. 12, interleaved copy with a copious number of additional entries in manuscript, contemporary red roan-backed boards (spine rubbed). W. & S. p. 53: "contains 264 works on angling".
FEARING, Daniel B. Check List of Books on Angling, New York: for private distribution. 1901, 8, interleaved, original green wrappers, lettered in gilt on upper cover. Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY from the author to Albert Petit (inscribed on limitation leaf). LIMITED TO 25 COPIES. With a tipped-in letter from Fearing to Petit, dated Aix-les-Bains, Aug. 5/01, saying he has obtained copies of a book he wanted and expressing 'thanks for your thoughts of me'. Petit 515.
WESTWOOD, Thomas. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Westwood Esq., for sale by J. W. Bouton New York: 1873, 4, woodcut frontispiece, later half calf preserving original wrappers. Petit 547.
FRANCIS, Francis. Catalogue of the Angling Library of the Late Francis Francis Esq. ... to be sold for auction by Messr. Puttick and Simpson., London: 1890. 8 (a few minor marginal tears), cloth- backed boards, original wrappers bound in (spine lightly rubbed). Petit 516 -- and 10 others, including 2 volumes of W. W. Sabin angling catalogues, 1882-1886, and several Pickering and Chatto catalogues. (14)
FEARING, Daniel B. Check List of Books on Angling, New York: for private distribution. 1901, 8, interleaved, original green wrappers, lettered in gilt on upper cover. Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY from the author to Albert Petit (inscribed on limitation leaf). LIMITED TO 25 COPIES. With a tipped-in letter from Fearing to Petit, dated Aix-les-Bains, Aug. 5/01, saying he has obtained copies of a book he wanted and expressing 'thanks for your thoughts of me'. Petit 515.
WESTWOOD, Thomas. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Westwood Esq., for sale by J. W. Bouton New York: 1873, 4, woodcut frontispiece, later half calf preserving original wrappers. Petit 547.
FRANCIS, Francis. Catalogue of the Angling Library of the Late Francis Francis Esq. ... to be sold for auction by Messr. Puttick and Simpson., London: 1890. 8 (a few minor marginal tears), cloth- backed boards, original wrappers bound in (spine lightly rubbed). Petit 516 -- and 10 others, including 2 volumes of W. W. Sabin angling catalogues, 1882-1886, and several Pickering and Chatto catalogues. (14)