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Word: scrapbooked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1915-1915
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...University Library has recently received from D. B. Fearing '82 a 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTION OF VOUMES O ANGLING ADDED TO LIBRARY | 12/16/1915 | See Source »

...library books on angling, fishing, fisheries, and fish-culture, now numbering 12,000 volumes and pamphlets in 20 different languages, has its start in 1890 in the form of a scrapbook on trout and trout-fishing. From that scrapbook began the collection of books entirely on trout and trout-fishing; then there were added books with chapters on those subjects and so no until the four heads mentioned above were gradually drawn in and the library began to grow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTION OF VOUMES O ANGLING ADDED TO LIBRARY | 12/16/1915 | See Source »

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