This angling book is titled "Piscatorial Reminiscences And Gleanings By An Old Angler And Bibliopolist. To Which Is Added A Catalogue Of Books On Angling", no author is mentioned, but the book was compiled by Thomas Boosey and published by William Pickering in 1835, which makes this a first edition, according to WorldCat. The book has five raised bands, with a gilt title and gilt fishing ornaments on the spine, "Pickering 1835" in gilt on the heel of the spine, the covers are full green crushed levant morocco, with marbled endpapers that have double gilt-fillet borders on the front paste-down and attractive gilt decorations inside the borders, a small bookplate with the initial "S" on the first blank endpaper, then the half-title, the illustrated frontis with a protective tissue guard, the title page with the anchor colophon of William Pickering, a three-page Preface, an eight-page Introduction, 248 pages of text with numerous small fishing vignettes, a seven-page Index, and a forty-page bibliography of books on angling - the bibliography is unpaginated and the formal title is "Bibliotheca Piscatoria, A Catalogue Of Books Upon Angling", with the anchor colophon of William Pickering again and the date of 1836 on the first page of the bibliography, and the top edge is gilt. Evidently this was a groundbreaking bibliography of angling books prepared by Pickering, and the words on the anchor read "Aldi Discip. Anglvs", which was based on a printers mark by Aldus Manutius from the fifteenth century and means "The English Disciple of Aldus". (The bibliography was collated by Sir Henry Elis in 1811 and Ellis lent the bibliography to Pickering for this book). The book also comes in a black marbled slipcase. Thomas Boosey (1767 - 1840) was the son of an English bookseller. Thomas began an apprenticeship with his father in 1782 and expanded the bookselling business established by his father by selling foreign language publications; between 1795 and 1800 there were many French emigre in London, fleeing from the horror of the French Revolution, and this made Thomas Boosey probably the third biggest retailer of emigre journals appearing in London at that time. By 1816 the firm had established a music publishing business located in London at 28 Holles Street, near Oxford Street. The Boosey family were members of the Glasite or Sandemanian Church in London and involved in the book trade for several generations, as were other members of the Sandemanian Church. Thomas was also known for his love of angling and wrote this book on the subject in 1835. He died in Middlesex in 1840, according to his family tree. The book is 8vo. and measures 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. wide and very attractive, except for the detached cover and marbled endpaper in front, and those can be repaired. Other than that, the book is all you'd want it to be - it's in very good condition, with clean text and a tight binding, clean illustrations, with just a hint of small brown spots here and there and that's it, and the slipcase is in very good condition too, with just light rubbing at the corners. An important book for early piscatorial fans, and hard to find in the angling world. #133 #1589