Selected Bibliography

This selected bibliography provides a small but representative sample of the many books from the Reed Draper Collection in the Clarke Historical Library collection.

Reference Works

Bartlett, John. Catalogue of Books on Angling, Including Ichthyology, Pisciculture, Fisheries and Fishing Laws. From the Library of a Practitioner of More Than Fifty Years' Experience in the Art of Angling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1882.

[Boosey, Thomas]. Piscatorial reminiscences and gleanings by an old angler and bibliopolist. To which is added a catalogue of books on angling. London: William Pickering, 1835.

Bruns, Henry P. Angling Books of the Americas. Atlanta: Anglers Press, 1975.

Gingrich, Arnold. The Fishing in Print. New York: Winchester Press, 1974.

Goodspeed, Charles E. Angling in America; Its Early History and Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939.

Hills, John Waller. A History of Fly Fishing For Trout. London: Philip Allan and Co., 1921.

Horne, Bernard. The Complete Angler. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, distributed by the University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970.

Marston, R. B. Walton and Some Earlier Writers on Fish and Fishing. London: Elliot Stock, 1894.

Oliver, Peter. A New Chronicle of the Compleat Angler. New York: The Paisley Press, 1936.

Phillips, John.  American Game Mammals and Birds. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1930.

Radcliffe, William. Fishing from the Earliest Times. 2d ed. New York: Dutton, 1926.

Robb, James. Notable Angling Literature. London: J. Jenkins, 1945.

Sabin, Joseph. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Waltonian Library. New York: Bradstreet Press, 1866.

Sabin, W. [comp.] A Catalogue of Books Angling. No. IV. London: Sabin, 1883.

Sage, Dean. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Books on Angling Belonging to Mr. Dean Sage of Albany, N.Y. New York: De Vinne Press, 1896.

Satchell, Thomas. The Bibliography of Izaak Walton's Complete Angler. London: [n.p.], 1882.

Westwood, T. and T. Satchell. Bibliotheca Piscatoria. London: Satchell, 1883.

Westwood, Thomas. The Chronicle of the "Complete Angler" of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, being a bibliographical record ... . London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864.

Westwood, Thomas. The Chronicle of the "Complete Angler" of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, being a bibliographical record ... A New Edition. London: W. Satchell, 1883.

Wetzel, Charles M. American Fishing Books. A bibliography from the earliest times up to 1948, together with a history of angling and angling literature in America. Stone Harbor, N.J.: Meadow Run Press, 1990.

Walton, Isaac and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler. New York: John Wiley, 1852. [George W. Bethune, editor, 3d Bethune edition].