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...large collection of books on angling and fishing. Starting with only a scrapbook on trout and trout and trout-fishing, the collection grew to some 12,000 volumes, including treatise on all sorts of fishing, and even whaling. The most valuable single volume is a first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angle," copies of which have sold for more than $6,000. The library is also the most complete in the world in official documents of all countries on fishing. Mr. Fearing himself describes this collection in detail in the current issue of the Graduates Magazine, as follows...
...library has two copies of the most valuable and important book ever written on fishing, the first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler." Copies of this first edition, which at the time of publication sold for 18 pence were worth $60 in 1847 and in 1889 their value has risen to $225. The high-wate mark was reached in 1907, however, when one of these first editions sold for $6,450. The library also contains a Flemish work published in 1492, which is the earliest known treatise on fishing. the original manuscript of the English translation, together with...
...BRIGGS.ENGLISH 28. Members of English 28 will please read for Tuesday, January 4, "Ben Jonson" in "Ward's English Poets"; for Thursday, January 6, "Izaak Walton's Life of John Donne...
English 15 will meet Tuesday at nine in Sever 1. Members will read Izaak Walton's Life of Dome, and Dome's Satires...
...Harvard sportsmen and followers of Izaak Walton will find a most readable article in the May Century on "Game-fishes of the Florida Reef." There are many college men who make annual uniting and fishing excursions South, and these cannot fail to find much valuable information in this most excellent article. A graphic description is given of the different gamefish of the southern reef and the various ways of landing them, and there are interspersed many piscatorial anecdotes which add a zest to the whole...