Cliffe (John Henry). Notes and recollections of an angler: rambles among the mountains, valleys and solitudes of Wales. With sketches of some of the lakes, streams, mountains and scenic attractions in both divisions of the Principality. London, Bristol, and Gloucester, 1860. 8°. xii and 254 pp. Clifford (Charles), pseud. The angler: a didactic poem. London, printed by W. Spilsbury, for J. Wallis, 1804. pp. viii. 23. 12°. [Russell Smith attributes this work to William Henry Ireland, "best known as the forger of the Shakspeare Papers." Lowndes does not cite it by name in his list of that author's publications, but states that "he wrote a variety of poems and novels." The work is incomplete, consisting of but a single book. "The author will, by no means," he says, "be averse to make a more complete work of The Angler hereafter, should the public encourage it." From its remaining stationary at this point it probably lacked encouragement. With an amusing complacency, the writer assures us "There will not be found any similarity between the five books of the Halieutics of Oppian and his poem, any more than between it and "The Secrets of Angling," a poem in three books, published by a certain J. D. Esq. 1613, and which, though called a poem (!) would doubtless have been as pleasing and as useful, and would have taught those secrets which it professes to disclose, fully as well, had it not been done into verse."] Clinton (Lord). See REIDER (J. E. Von). Coad (J.) See GREENDRAKE (Gregory), pseud. Code de la pêche fluviale et de la chasse ou recueil complet des lois, décrets, ordonnances, etc. Dijon, 1829. 8°. Colburn (Henry). Colburn's kalendar of amusements in town and country for 1840, comprising...races, hunts,...shooting,... fishing, etc. With 12 Illustrations by R. Cruikshank. Edited by Boleyne Reeves. London, 1840. pp. iv. 356. 12°. Cole (Ralph). The young angler's pocket companion; or, a new and complete treatise on the art of angling, as may be practised with success in every river in England ;...the art of making artificial flies, etc. To which is now added, a new and most successful method of trolling and laying trimmers. ...Together with the best method of smelt fishing. London. Printed for R. Bassam, etc. 1795. 12°. front. pp. 108, 2 plates; 1813. 12°.; W. Mason. (1816). front. pp. 108. 12°. [The last mentioned edition, does not include smelt fishing and other matter.] Coler (Johann). Oeconomia ruralis et domestica. Darin das gantz Ampt aller trewer Haus-vätter, Haus-mütter...begriffen. Auch Wild-und Vögelfang, Weidwerck, Fischereyen, etc. parts. N. Heyll, Mäyntz 1656-45. fol.; other editions: 1665. 1680; Frankfort, 1686. 1692. fol. [Curious, quaint and interesting.] 2 Collaert (Adrian). Piscivm vivæ icones. In æs incisæ et editæ ab Adriano Collardo. [n. p. or d.) 12°. [25 plates and engraved title. Subjects: fish and fishing scenes. (Amongst the fish we find the crocodile.) Adrien Collaert was born at Antwerp, about 1520. According to Bryan, there should be 125 plates, but this is certainly an error. Mr. Denison's collection also contains a series of 19 plates, "excusæ a Nic. J. Visscher anno 1634," in which these drawings of fish are carefully reproduced but without the accompanying landscape, etc.] Colquhoun (John). The moor and the loch: containing practical hints on most of the Highland sports...with an essay on loch fishing. Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1840. pp. viii. 128. 12 plates. 8°.; The moor and the loch: containing practical hints on Highland sports...with instructions in river, burn and loch fishing. Second edition. London, Murray, 1841. pp. xii. 204. 15 plates. 8°.; The moor and the loch: containing minute instructions in all Highland sports, with wanderings over crag and correi, "flood and fell." Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1851. pp. xvii. 406. 15 plates. 8°.; The moor and the loch containing minute instructions in all Highland sports. Fourth edition, enlarged. 2 vol. Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1878. 15 plates. 8°.; Fifth edition, enlarged. 2 vol. London and Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1880. 15 plates. 8°. Rocks and rivers; or Highland wanderings over crag and correi, "flood and fell." London, Murray, 1849. pp. viii. 185. 12°. [Afterwards incorporated with the third edition of "The moor and the loch." Salmon casts and stray shots; being fly-leaves from the note-book of John Colquhoun. London, Blackwood, 1858. pp. x. 205. 8°. Edinburgh and [Passages from this work are included in the fourth edition of "The moor and the loch."] Sporting days. Edinburgh, [printed); London. Blackwood, 1866. pp. viii. 255. 8°. [A reprint of articles "contributed to an Edinburgh weekly journal," passages from which are included in the fourth edition of "The moor and the loch." All Mr. Colquhoun's books are pervaded with that love for wild nature and strong sense of humanity to the creatures inhabiting it, which characterize the true sportsman. Geniality and kindliness of heart appear in every page. All his instructions in Highland sports are admirable; the sportsman's keen zest in capturing the denizens of moor and loch being strongly tempered with the naturalist's love for observing their habits and modes of life. Mr. Colquhoun's practical knowledge of sporting and fishing, however, is superior to his attainments as a scientific naturalist. His chapters on salmon and trout fishing teem with useful hints, while he is indisputably the first authority of his time on the wary Salmo ferox and its capture in the larger Scotch lochs.] Columella (Lucius Junius Moderatus). De re rustica libri xii. Dublin, 1732. 8°.; Flensburg, 1795. 8°. [Generally published with the works of other 'Scriptores rei rusticæ.' The chief editions are Venice, 1472. fol. (the 'Princeps'; Bologna, 1494. fol.; by Aldus, 1514. 8vo.; by R. Stephens, 1543. 8vo.; by Gesner, Leipzig. 2 vol. 1735 & 1773. 4to.; and by J. G. Schneider, Leipzig. 4 vol. 1794. 8vo. The last being the most complete. There is a German translation by M. C. Curtius : Zwölf Bücher von der Landwirthschaft. Hamburg and Bremen, 1769. 8vo.] Of husbandry, in twelve books, and his book concerning trees, translated into English... London, 1745. 4°. [Columella was born about the beginning of the Christian era and sprang from a family belonging to Gades (Cadiz). Book iv. cap. 16, De piscinis et piscibus alendis; cap. 17, De positione piscinæ.] Comenius (John Amos). Latinæ linguæ janua reserata. The gate of the Latine tongue unlocked. London: William DuGard, 1658. 8°. [The author, a protestant divine, born in Moravia in 1592, was a very earnest grammarian and attempted several improvements in education. This work, which was originally published at Lesna in Poland, in 1631, under the title, "Janua Linguarum," is a sort of encyclopædic phrase-book, each of its 100 chapters, containing the words used in a separate art, science, or trade, and explaining them by means of the context. A previous edition, in Latin, English and French, is dated, London, 1639: 'The gate of tongues unlocked and opened, or else a seminary or seed-plot of all tongues and sciences.' In dealing with the art of fishing, he says: "A Fisher laieth wait for fishes; the greater ones swimming at the top he striketh with a fish-spear; the lesser ones swimming against the stream he allureth with rushy bow-nets, sunk weels (whereinto when they are once gotten they cannot get forth :) the deeper ones he draweth out of the river with a purs-net or tramel : out of a lake with a sweep-net and drags (which sinck by reason of the plumets hanged at the bottom, and flot by reason of the corks on the top; but they have a different wideness of the mashes according to the bigness of the fishes :) part of that which is catched he selleth; part he putteth up in repositories, from whence when there is need hee taketh them out with a ware-net: part he picketh for salt fish. An Angler fisheth with a hook whereon having put a bait, whatsoever fish being allured, biteth at it, hee is taken."] Competenz-Spharen. Die Competenz-Sphären...und der Gesetzentwurf betreffend den Schutz und die Ausübung der Fischerei. Wien, 1876. 8°. Contributions to natural history, chiefly in relation to the food of the people. By a rural D.D. [i. e. D. Esdaile, D. D.] London and Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1865. 8°.; second ed. 1867. pp. vi. 378. 8°. [The second edition includes a "New system of sea fishing," but the book chiefly deals with salmon culture.] Conway (James). Letters from the Highlands; or, two months among the salmon and the deer. London: Lumley, 1859. 8°. Forays among salmon and deer. London: Chap man and Hall, 1861. front. pp. xii. 248. 8°. [A reprint of the "Letters," in an improved form, with large additions.] Cooper (Alfred W.) See FRANCIS (F.) Sporting sketches with pen and pencil, 1878. 4°. Coppini (Carlo Franc.) Prigioni, e morte delli pesci raccolte de diuersi eccellenti authori. Dal Signor Dottore C. F. C. Parmegiano. In Roma, per Michele Corbellini, 1655. pp. viii. 234. xxvi. 8°. Coquet. The marriage of the Coquet and the Alwine. [Woodcut]. Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by S. Hodgson, 1817. pp. viii. 8. 8°. [The second publication of the Newcastle Typographical Society. The dedication is signed by John Adamson, who neither claims nor yet disclaims, the authorship. The two streams unite about ten miles above Rothbury, in a very Paradise for the angler. This fact forms the sole claim of the verses to admission into this list. They are an imitation of Drayton. 277 copies were printed.] Coquet - dale. The Coquet-dale fishing songs. Now first collected and edited by a North Country Angler. Edinburgh and London, Blackwood. 1852. 8°. viii. 168 pp. [The 'North Country Angler' was Thomas Doubleday. The collection consists of Robert Roxby's contributions to the "Newcastle Fishers Garlands," with others, in which Mr. Doubleday was wholly or partly concerned. It is accompanied with a history of their composition, and a sketch of the life of their author, by his friend and coadjutor, Doubleday.] Cornhill. The Cornhill magazine. In progress. London. 1860, etc. 12°. [Contains some excellent articles on angling.] Cosmopolite. See IRELAND, Sportsman in Ireland, 1840. Costello (Dudley). Stories from a screen. London, Bradbury and Evans, 1855. pp. 319. sq. 8°. [Contains an amusing angling story, "The piscatorial adventures of Jean Gribou," in seven chapters.] F Cotton (Charles). See WALTON (Iz.) The compleat angler. Being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling, in a clear stream. Part II. [Cypher.] "Qui mihi non credit, faciat licet ipse periclum : Et fuerit scriptis æquior ille meis." London, printed for Richard Marriott and Henry Brome, in [This was sold separately, or conjointly with Walton and Venables, under the title of the "Universal angler."] Poems on several occasions. London, printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet St. 1689. pp. vi. 730. 8°. [Contains "The angler's ballad," p. 76; "To my dear and most worthy friend, Mr. Izaak Walton." p. 114; "The retirement. Stanzes irreguliers. To Mr. Izaak Walton." p. 133; "Contentation, directed to my dear Father and most worthy Friend, Mr. Izaak Walton." p. 252.] A series of views, taken on the spot, intended to illustrate C. C's work, entitled, The second part of the Complete Angler... Also views mentioned in the same work, of the journey to Beresford Hall, the fishing house, etc. (Edited by F. Manning.) London, Truscott, [1866]. 4°. [Privately printed. The volume contains a map of the river Dove and 24 etchings. The letterpress is confined to Mr. Manning's preface.] Couch (Jonathan). A torpedo at one end of the line. Fishhooks of the earliest date. See PENNELL (H. C.) Fishing Gossip, 1866. 8°. Country. The Country. A journal of rural pursuits. London, 1873-1879. fol. [Has ceased to appear. It contains much fishing matter.] Country gentleman. The country gentleman's companion. (vol. I. i. Of the horse in general. ii. Of riding...xvii. Of fishing in general, and of making fish-ponds. xviii. Of taking all sorts of fish. Vol. II. contains...viii. Of angling in general. ix. Of the best and worst seasons to angle in, and their uses. x. Of baits. xi. Of preserving fish from all sorts of devourers. xii. Of ordering ponds for the nourishment of fish.) By a Country Gentleman, from his own experience. 2 vols. London, 1753. 12°. 2nd edition. Dublin, 1755. pp. iv. 280. iv. 8°. [One of the metempsychoses to which angling works were anciently subjected. The treatise on angling above cited is a textual reproduction of "The Pleasures of Princes" which was also incorporated by Gervase Markham, with his "Country Contentments."] Country-man. The country-man's recreation, or the art of planting, graffing and gardening, in three books... Hereunto is |