Fishing from the Earliest Times

Abstract

MR. WILLIAM RADCLIFFE'S interesting volume upon the history of the fisherman's craft received a well-deserved welcome when it was first published in 1921, and was accepted at once as an attractive and instructive contribution, filling an important gap in the literature of the subject, voluminous though this literature already was. We may rejoice with the author over the success of the first edition, as evidenced by the advent of a second. Actually, little needs to be said in regard to this new edition, since it differs but slightly from the earlier. The new volume is in fact a reprint with sundry minor alterations and emendations. The pagination remains the same, and the alterations have been governed by the necessity of making the new passages conform exactly to the spaces occupied by the discarded ones. This, no doubt, has been considered imperative, but one cannot but realise that the emendations would have proved more satisfying had these limitations not been imposed.

Fishing from the Earliest Times.

By William Radcliffe. Second edition. Pp. xxi + 494 + 22 plates. (London: John Murray, 1926.) 21s. net.