London: William Pickering, 1835; 1836. First edition. The Birth of Angling Bibliography: Heckscher Copy. More “the result of paste and scissors” (Westwood & Satchell) than a coherent text, but redeemed by the groundbreaking bibliography of angling books prepared by Pickering, who states in the Catalogue that it “is formed upon..... Read More about Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which is added A...

London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Publisher’s Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge. With a later fore-edge painting of trout fishing on the Chateaugay Lake, Franklin County, New York. Read More about Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America

[np]: Privately Printed, [1933]. First edition, one of 100 copies. Signed by the author “F.W. Lowery” on the title page. Account of a salmon fishing trip on the Jupiter River, Anticosti Island, by Douglas, McCloy, Ward, Belknap, the president of Consolidated Paper, and the author (who remains anonymous throughout his..... Read More about History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface, signed D.B

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Poulton, Thomas, & Sigrist, Charles. Number 1253 of 1600 copies. A beautifully produced volume (the title page alone went through 27 revisions), and the first edition of Walton's complete writings. Read More about The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson; and...

London: printed for the author: and sold by E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXIX. [1769]. First edition, one of two issues in same year (the other is an anonymous issue dated 1769, known in a single copy at Reading ESTC T160335). Rare. No copy appears in last 30..... Read More about The Spiritual Fisherman; or, The Character, Complaint, Duty and Resolution of an Evangeical...