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Important
Notice!
For the first time The Autobiography of Dr. James A. Henshall is now
available in book form. If
you’re interested in this great man you should have this book about his
life.
For details click here: The
Whitefish Press
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James Alexander Henshall, M. D.
1836-1925
Writings of The Apostle of the Black Bass
(Extracted from Books of the Black Bass by Clyde E. Drury, (c)1978, 1991, 2005)
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Book of the Black Bass.
Comprising Its Complete Scientific And Life History Together With A
Practical Treatise On Angling And Fly Fishing And A Full Description Of Tools,
Tackle, And Implements.
8vo. viii, 463 pages. 1881. Robert Clarke.
Because
of his importance I am listing Dr. Henshall in a little different format with a
separate entry for each printing of his books.
1881. Variant. Spine shows, Robert Clarke & Co. Flower decorated endpapers. 4 pages of ads. 8 page undated list of Clarke books (
1881. Variant. Spine shows, Robert Clarke & Co. Flower decorated endpapers. 5 pages of ads, 5th page is ad for
Henshall's Camping & Cruising in Florida (1884). 12 page undated list of Clarke
books. (
1881. Variant? Bruns lists the 1st edition with Robert
Clarke & Co. on spine. In
his entry he says that the book contains both 14 and 16 pages of ads. Since none of the above printings
contain either 14 or 16 pages of book ads this could be another printing.
1881. Half leather. Marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering on spine. Different binding from the book listed
below. Marbling on this book mostly
green and gold. Book listed below
has much red in marbling. Robert
Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1881. Half leather. Marbled boards, endpapers and tops. Gilt lettering and design on
spine. Publishers name not shown on
spine. No ads. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1889. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH. Head of cover, Inch for inch, and
Pound for pound, the Gamest Fish that Swims. Black lettering and gilt Bass on
cover. Lettering, crossed hooks, rod
and reel on spine, all gilt.
Matched set with 1889 More About The Black Bass. Quote at head of front cover is different
on the two titles.
1889. One half brown morocco with marbled
boards and endpapers. Top edge
gilt. Large Paper Edition. Matched set with 1889 More About The
Black Bass. I was told by a
knowledgeable book dealer that this edition was limited to 50 copies. My copy is not numbered, also it has no
limitation page. Spine has gilt
design and lettering but publishers name is not on spine. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH. Book size is 6 7/8" X 10 3/8".
1889. Large Paper Edition. Matched set with 1889 More About The
Black Bass. Gilt pictorial
cloth. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1890. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH. Head of cover, Inch for inch, and
Pound for pound, the Gamest Fish that Swims. Black lettering and gilt Bass on
cover. Lettering, crossed hooks,
rod and reel on spine, all gilt.
1890. Large Paper Edition. Limited to 50 copies. Half Morocco, marbled boards and
endpapers. Top edge gilt. Matched set with 1890 More About The
Black Bass. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1898. Large Paper Edition. Gilt pictorial cloth. Matched set with 1898 More About The
Black Bass. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1900. Large Paper Edition. Half morocco, marbled boards and
endpapers. Top edge gilt. Matched set with 1900 More About The
Black Bass. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati.
1900. Gray cloth. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH. Description of cover and spine same as
1st entry under 1889.
1900. Same description as above except green
cloth and decorated endpapers. The
one was unknown to me until Bruce Prillaman described it to me.
1970. Facsimile of 1881 edition. Green imitation leather. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Gilt Bass on cover. Gilt angler on spine. Spine shows 1881 and Bass Anglers
Sportsman Society. Foreword added
by B.A.S.S. Copyright by
B.A.S.S. Montgomery AL. 4 pages of ads and 8 page undated list
of Clark books.
1978. Same as 1970 except 1978 copyright has
been added.
1987. Same as 1970 except 1987 copyright has
been added. Lettering and gilt
angler on the spine are smaller than on previous facsimiles by B.A.S.S. I checked with B.A.S.S. to see how many
copies they had published of these facsimiles. They weren’t sure of the number
but told me it was upwards of 300,000.
2005
(not dated). Digital reprint by Kessinger Publishing. Whitefish MT. Soft cover. This is reprinted from one of the B.A.S.S.
editions although they don’t include the B.A.S.S. copyright. It does include the Foreword by Bob
Cobb. Does not include the ads and
list of Clarke books.
2007.
Digital reprint by Kessinger Publishing.
These are the only variations we have been
able to come up with on the 1st edition.
I am sure there are some we haven't found yet. If you run across anything new or can
provide additional information on any of these books please contact me.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - More About The Black Bass; Being A Supplement To The Book Of The Black Bass. 8vo. viii, 204 pages. 1889. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH. Follows the same format and has the same chapter headings as Book of the Black Bass. A necessary companion to the 1st edition. Green cloth. Gilt Bass on cover. Cover lettered in black. Gilt decorated and lettered spine. Top of front cover, The Best Game Fish Of America. He must have received some negative comments to his pronouncement about the Black Bass in the 1st edition because in this book he again explained his feelings, "I am utterly opposed to the introduction of Black Bass into waters in which there is the remotest chance for the brook-trout or rainbow-trout to thrive. I yield to no one in love and admiration for the brook-trout. I was perfectly familiar with it before I ever saw a Black Bass; but I am not so blinded by prejudice but that I can share that love with the Black Bass, which for several reasons is destined to become the favorite game-fish of America." Matched set with 1889 Book of the Black Bass, except quote at head of cover. 1889 available in a digitized version for free download on the web at archive.org or books.google.com.
1889. Half leather. Marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering on spine. Marbling mostly green and gold as on
1881 edition of Book of the Black Bass. (see 1881 half leather) Robert
Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1889. Large Paper Edition. Matched set with 1889 Book of the
Black Bass. Gilt pictorial
cloth. 6 7/8" X 10
3/8". Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1889. Large Paper Edition. Matched set with 1889 Book of the
Black Bass. Limited to 50
copies. Half morocco. Marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt tops. Robert Clarke.
1890. Large Paper Edition. Half Morocco. Marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Limited to 50 copies. Matched set with 1890 Book of
the Black Bass. Robert
Clarke.
1898. Grey cloth. Gilt Bass on cover. Black lettering and decorations on
cover. Gilt lettering on
spine. Gilt crossed hooks and gilt
rod and reel on spine. Robert
Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1898. Large Paper Edition. Gilt pictorial cloth. Matched set with 1898 Book of the
Black Bass. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1898. Large Paper Edition. Half morocco. Marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt tops. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH. I imagine that this was also part of a
matched set but I haven't seen a 1898 Book of the Black Bass listed anywhere
with this description.
1900. Large Paper Edition. Half morocco. Marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Matched set with 1900 Book of
the Black Bass. Robert
Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1989. Facsimile of 1889
edition. Bass Anglers Sportsman
Society. Montgomery Al. Embossed gray leatherette cover with
gold stamping on cover and spine.
Second printing by B.A.S.S., © 1989. Same description.
Except the 1889 Large Paper Edition of Book
of the Black Bass in my collection I have not seen any of the Large Paper
Editions that are listed on this and the preceding page. All information about Large Paper
Editions was taken from the catalogs of reputable book dealers or published
bibliographies.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Book of the Black Bass. New Edition, revised and Extended. 8vo. v, 452 pages. 1904. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH. The stereotype plates for all the
earlier printings of Book of the Black Bass and More About The Black
Bass having been destroyed in a fire, Dr. Henshall revised and combined the
two earlier books with new material.
Green cloth. Head of cover, Inch
for Inch, and Pound for Pound, The Gamest Fish That Swims. Leaping Bass on cover, crossed hooks,
Bass fly and lettering on spine.
All lettering and design work on cover and spine gilt. Some new drawings, including, Landing
a Double, for which his friend Professor Alfred M. Mayer was the
subject. In three parts as the 1st
edition. The Scientific and
Life History section is now only 121 pages. An article on the history of the
Kentucky Reel that had been published in Outing magazine for December
1900 has been added in its entirety to the section on reels.
2nd
impression.
3rd
impression
4th
impression
5th
impression
6th
impression
1913. 7th impression. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH. Green cloth. Design on cover and spine the same as
1904. This edition is not marked to
indicate a numbered impression.
I've searched for several years for the dates for the 2nd through 6th
impressions with absolutely no leads.
I'm beginning to wonder if they were ever identified as such. It seems there are two possibilities
to explain this failure. One, there
were six printings of the 1904 and none were identified by date of
publication. The second, maybe
someone at Stewart & Kidd just counted the previous printings before they
marked the 1915 as the 8th impression.
If you start with 1881 there were seven printings identified by a
different year before 1915. 1881,
1889, 1890, 1898, 1900, 1904, & 1913.
1915. 8th impression. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH. Green cloth. Design on cover and spine same as 1904.
1917. 9th impression. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH. Green cloth. Design on cover and spine same as 1904.
1918. 10th impression. Stewart & Kidd.
1919. 11th impression. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH. Green cloth. Design on cover and spine same as 1904.
1919. Three fourths Turkey Morocco. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH.
1920. 12th impression. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH. Green cloth. Cover same as 1904. Spine lettered but does not have
crossed hooks or Bass fly as on 1904.
I don’t know when the dust jackets started but this book had
one. I also saw a 1919 advertised
with a dust jacket. Other printings
through 1939 were also issued with dust jackets.
1920. Half black calf. Half black cloth. gilt tops. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati
OH.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Book of the Black Bass. 8vo. 548 pages. 1923. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH. The title page reads, new edition -
revised and Rewritten. Includes
new illustrations and two color plates, one plate of Bass flies and the other
is Bass Bugs (The Bass Bugs were tied expressly for the plate by Fred M. Peet
of Chicago). Now has photos of Dr.
Henshall showing casting techniques instead of the drawings of him that were
used in the earlier editions.
Part I, comprising the scientific history of the Bass, was greatly
curtailed in this edition because he felt it was no longer necessary to go
into such detail. He finished all
three editions with the same words, "There is not much likelihood of there
being any occasion for adding anything to it during my life, and it is not
likely that anyone will add anything to it after I am gone." Actually the statement was first contained
in the supplement, which he considered part of the first edition. Gilt lettering on cover and
spine. Green cloth.
1923. Same as above except
"Appleton" shown on foot of spine. Stewart & Kidd still shown on the
title page.
1932. Reprint of 1923. Green cloth. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Appleton. NY.
1939. Reprint of 1923. Green cloth. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Appleton-Century. NY.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Camping And Cruising In Florida. 8vo. xvi, 248 pages. 1884. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH. Yellow cloth. Black title and decorated cover. Gilt decorated and lettered spine. Not a whole lot on Black Bass but does
mention them several times.
Mentions that Dr. Henshall caught his largest Bass (20 pounds) in
Florida on live bait. The first part
of the book: Cruise of the Blue Wing, covers a trip that he made to
Florida in 1878 with five of his patients.
He had prescribed the outdoors for their health, they hunted, fished,
camped, and cruised, and all returned home with their ills cured. The second part: Cruise of the Rambler,
covers the same type of trip except on this one he took his ailing wife. He did much fishing but only mentions
the Black Bass a few times. He
tells of taking Bass to 8 pounds on the fly rod and later a nine pounder on the
fly rod. Once they took Bass from 2
to 14 pounds until they tired of catching them. Much of the material in this book was
previously printed in Forest & Stream or America Field, under
his pseudonym, Oconomowoc.
Most of the illustrations are from original pen and ink drawings by
George W. Potter. Includes a 6 page
ad for Book of the Black Bass and 12 page list of Clarke's other
books. Unusual for 1884 this book
was issued with a dust jacket. 1884
available in a digitized version for free download on the web at
books.google.com.
1884. Half morocco. Marbled boards. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1888. Evidently the last printing by Clarke
since the plates for this book were also destroyed in the fire at the Robert
Clarke Co. In his autobiography
Henshall said that this book went through several printings. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH.
1991.
Reprinted by
HENSHALL,
JAMES ALEXANDER, MD –
A
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Bass, Pike, Perch And Others. 8vo. xxi, 410 pages. 1903. Macmillan Co. NY & London. One of the America Sportsman's Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. Illustrated in black and white. Green cloth. Gilt decorated and lettered cover. Gilt lettering on spine. I saw a pre-publication ad for this book that used the title, Bass, Pike, Perch and Pickerel, this title was also used in an ad in the back of this book. Pages 3-52 cover Largemouth and Smallmouth. Gilt tops not always present. 1903 available in a digitized version for free download on the web at both archive.org and books.google.com.
1903. Three fourths morocco. Marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt tops. Gilt lettering and decorations on
spine. Large Paper Edition limited
to 100 copies. My copy is #74 of
100. Macmillan NY.
There were 16 volumes in this set, all edited by Caspar Whitney and
printed between 1902 and 1905. All
were issued in the limited edited and in a trade edition. For those who might be interested I've
listed the other 15 titles here. The
America Thoroughbred; America
Yachting; Big Game Fishes of
the U.S.; The Deer Family; Guns, Ammunition & Tackle; Lawn Tennis; Lacrosse; Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep, & Goat; Photography for the Sportsman
Naturalist; Riding &
Driving; Rowing & Track
Athletics; Salmon & Trout; The Sporting Dog; Trotting
& Pacing Horse in America;
Upland Game Birds; and The Water-Fowl Family.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Bass, Pike, Perch And Other Game
Fishes Of America. 8vo. xxi, 410 pages. 1919. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH. This is the same book as above with a
title change. Frontispiece has been
changed, this edition has a color frontispiece of fighting Bass. Blue cloth. Gilt lettered cover and spine. Pre-Publication title was, Bass,
Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of the United States. Title was changed before
publication. 1919 available
in a digitized version for free download on the web at books.google.com.
1919. Three fourths turkey morocco. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH.
1920. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover
and spine. Gilt tops. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH.
1923. Stewart & Kidd. Cincinnati OH.
1923. Green cloth. Gilt lettered cover and spine. Green tops. Spine shows "Appleton." Title page still shows publisher as
Stewart & Kidd.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Favorite Fish And Fishing. 8vo. 192 pages. 1908. Outing Press. NY.
Illustrated. Covers all game
fish with over 40 pages on the Black Bass.
Dark green cloth with light green lettering on cover and
spine. Cover decoration is fishing
creel in light green. Based on
information originally published in Outing; Country Life In
America; Shooting and Fishing; London Fishing Gazette; and
the America Fish Culturist.
1908 available in a digitized version for free download on the
web at books.google.com.
1908. Green buckram. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. A scroll with The Outing Publishing
Co. on spine. Outing logo on
spine. Photo of fly fisherman (same
as frontispiece) inlaid on front cover.
1908. Musson Book Co. Toronto. Canada.
1909. Grant Richards.
I have gone into more detail on Dr. Henshall
than any other author because I consider him so important in the history
of Black Bass literature. Since
this book is dedicated to him I have also listed items that do not concern
Black Bass and in one case a non angling book.
Dr. Henshall's early books were published by
his friend Robert Clarke. Clarke
was a book collector himself, building a collection of several thousand volumes
on Americana, Scottiana, archaeology, natural history and other subjects. In 1892 Clarke sold some fifteen hundred
books on fish, fish culture, and angling to the Newberry Library in
Chicago. The collection was
later transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History. Charles P. Goldey in the 1893, 3rd
edition of The Sportsman’s Directory And Year Book included this
when writing about the angling exhibit at the Columbian Exposition, there
were exhibited "a completed collection of 100 editions of Izaak Walton
plus the most extensive collection of angling and fishing books in the world,
by Robert Clarke of Cincinnati, who spent 40 years gathering them
together." Clarke was one of
the last of the large Cincinnati publishers. In the days before the railroads moved
west and until about the end of the Civil War, Cincinnati was the gateway to
the west and many large publishers were located there. The Clarke Co. suffered heavy losses
from a fire in 1903, this was the fire that destroyed the stereotype plates for
the first three Henshall books. The
company never fully recovered from the fire and control was gained in 1905 by
Jay F. Fanning, a law book publisher of Norwalk, Ohio. The Robert Clarke Co. was dissolved in a
receiver's sale in 1909 and was divided between two bidders. The miscellaneous stock and the right to
use the company name was purchased by W. K. Stewart of Indianapolis, later
senior partner of Stewart & Kidd of Cincinnati. Until the summer of 1911 the business
was run as the Robert Clarke Book store, for the next three years the name was
The Robert Clarke Book Store, Stewart Kidd Company, after which the Clarke name
was dropped. In 1924 the publishing
portion of Stewart & Kidd was purchased by Appleton. Kidd took over operation of the book
store and ran it for several years under his own name. Around 1933, Appleton merged with the
Century Co. I have read that at the
time of the merger, 85,000 copies of Book of the Black Bass had already
been printed, probably the best thing that Appleton had going for
them. In the late 1940s, probably
1948, Appleton Century bought the stocks of F. S. Crofts. In 1980, I wrote to
Appleton-Century-Crofts seeking information on Dr. Henshall and his
books. They informed me that they
no longer publish anything other than nursing and medical books. The trade books of A-C-C had been
obtained by Hawthorne Books.
Hawthorne Books was taken over by Elsevier/Dutton who kindly researched
their files for me and reported back that they had no record of either Dr.
Henshall or his books.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD – Evolution Of the “Kentucky
Reel”. 8vo. Pages 288-293. 1985. Oklahoma City OK. Soft cover. A facsimile reprint of an article
originally published in the December 1900, Outing magazine.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Report Upon A Collection Of Fishes
Made In Southern Florida During 1889.
4to. Pages 371-389. 1891. U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Document 167. Washington DC. Extracted from the Bulletin Of The
United States Fish Commission, Volume ix, For 1889. The months of February, March, and
April, 1889, were spent by Henshall in making an ichthyologic exploration of
the southern coast of Florida, together with the U.S. Fish Commission schooner
Grampus.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Notes On Fishes Collected In Florida
In 1892. 8vo. 15 pages. 1894. U.S. Fish Commission Bulletin for 1894,
Article 17. Softbound. Washington DC. "During the months of January,
February, and March, 1892, the writer was engaged in collecting a series of the
salt-water fishes of Florida for use in preparing the exhibit of the U. S. Fish
Commission at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893." Reprinted 1987.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - A Plea For The Development And Protection
Of Florida Fish And Fisheries.
Taken from Proceedings And Papers Of The National Fishery Congress held
at Tampa Florida, January 19-24, 1898.
Extracted from U. S. Fish Commission Bulletin for 1897. Article 8, pages 253 to 255.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - A List Of The Fishes Of Montana With
Notes On The Game Fishes. 8vo. 12 pages. 1906. University of Montana. Missoula MT. A descriptive paragraph on Largemouth
and Smallmouth Bass. Indicates that
Bass had been planted in the western portion of the state where the waters were
warmer. He also says “The
colder waters of the eastern part of the state are totally unsuited to black
bass; moreover, they should never be planted in ponds or streams containing
trout.” Four pages are
devoted to trout, and grayling with a short paragraph on the Rocky Mountain
whitefish. Reprinted 1985.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Culture Of The Montana Grayling. 4to. 7 pages. 1907. Fisheries Document #628. U. S. Dept. of Commerce and Labor. Washington DC. Softbound.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Scientific Papers On Fishes by
David Starr Jordan, M.D., collected by James A. Henshall. - 8vo - variously
paginated, over 480 pages.
1884. Cynthiana KY. 18 papers that were previously printed
by different scientific journals between 1874 and 1878. Title page and index hand lettered by
Henshall. Also, each paper has a
hand lettered title page. There is
no doubt that Henshall used these papers in writing the 1st section to Book
of the Black Bass, there are notations and corrections throughout the
papers, all in Henshall's hand. A
unique, one of a kind, book. Gilt
lettering on spine with Henshall shown as publisher. Title page has Henshall's signature and
stamp. There is also a notation to
show the book was owned by Al Foss in 1929. Title listed above is on spine of book,
hand written title page shows title as Scientific Papers On Ichthyology.
HENSHALL, JAMES ALEXANDER, MD - Ye Gods And Little Fishes. A Travesty On The Argonautic Expedition In Quest Of The Golden Fleece. 8vo. 213 pages. 1900. Robert Clarke. Cincinnati OH. Designs by J. L. Ludlow with full page borders throughout the book. Based on The Argonautica of Appolonious Rhodius, an epic poet of the late 3rd century and early 2nd century, B. C. Wetzel said, "Characterized throughout by keen wit & pungent satire." A different look at Dr. Henshall and his subtle sense of humor. Several mentions of angling. He has the fair Atalanta invent the revolving spoon and Hercules designs the first rod and reel. He even squeezed in conservation, Jason and his crew keep only the large fish and return the small ones to the water. Also makes some social comment and provides more evidence of his distrust of politicians, Circe turns fish and game hogs, liars, and crooked politicians into pigs, "And so the herd have all, for some good cause, Been changed from men to hogs by Nature's Laws. The change was slight, for they were hogs before; On two legs walked, where now they walk on four; The difference then, I think you'll surely find, is only in degree, and not in kind." Not an angling book but there seems to be increased interest over the past couple of years. Jim and Judy Bowman probably had a lot to do with that. Reprinted May 1904. 1900 available in a digitized version for free download on the web at archive.org.
MATERIAL WRITTEN BY HENSHALL AND INCLUDED IN
BOOKS BY AUTHORS LISTED ELSEWHERE IN THE CHECKLIST.
Black Bass, part of chapter titled, Fishes Of The West in Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide by Charles Hallock. 1877
Black Bass Fishing, pages 376-383, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - The Century Co. - 1883. Content is identical with entry below.
Black Bass Fishing, pages 379-395 in Sport With Rod and Gun edited by Alfred M. Mayer. 1883
The Resources of Fly Fishing, pages 259-272 in Fishing With The Fly by Charles F. Orvis and A. Nelson Cheney. 1883
The Black Bass, pages 149-174 in American Game Fishes edited by George O. Shields. 1892. Also, The Mascalonge, pages 191-199.
His Excellency: The Black Bass, pages 228-234 in With Rod and Gun by Edward A. Samuels. 1897.
BLACK BASS, pages 80-83, in Vol. I, The Encyclopedia of Sport edited by Hedly Peek and F. G. Aflalo. 2 Volumes. 1897.
The black basses, pages 127-139 and, Fishing rods and reels, pages 295-316 in Volume 2, Forest Lake and River by Dr. Frank M. Johnson. 1902.
Sport in Florida taken from Outing magazine, April 1886. Included in Tales of Old Florida edited by Frank Oppel & Tony Meisel - 1987
A letter from Dr. Henshall appears in Favorite Flies And Their Histories by Mary Orvis Marbury. Dr. Henshall said he restricted the number of flies he used to about a dozen. Also, "The following are original with me, and the date of their designing: Polka and Oriole, 1870; Henshall and Oconomowoc, 1872; Golden Dustman, 1883." He ended his letter with: "You can, of course, use anything in my books on the subjects, as I have not changed my opinion on anything written there."
James Alexander Henshall. The Autobiography Of The Apostle Of The Black Bass, Father Of The Greyling And Dean Of America Anglers. 27 installments in Forest & Stream magazine from May 1919 through July 1921.
JAMES ALEXANDER HENSHALL in The Autobiography of Dr. James Alexander
Henshall: The Father of Bass Fishing in
Black Bass, Large-Mouth and Small-Mouth; Fly Fishing for Black Bass; Striking the Black Bass; Playing the Black Bass; Black Bass Flies; and, Minnow Casting; in Sportsmen's Encyclopedia, edited by William A. Bruette. 1923.
The Fun Of Fishing, pages 451-459 in Fishing in North America 1876-1910 compiled by Frank Oppel.
Fly Fishing for Bass, pages 141-147 in The Fly Fisher's Reader edited by Leonard M. Wright Jr. 1990.
Conditions Which Govern The Biting Of Fish in The Angler's Companion edited by Sara Godwin 1991
Black Bass material taken from Book of the Black Bass in Trout & Bass by Alan James Robinson 1993
The Philosophy of Fishing taken from Book of the Black Bass in Ode To Bass & Trout by Alan James Robinson 1999
The
Philosophy of fishing, pages 110-113 and Bass, Pike, and Perch (an excerpt) pages 114-119 in Of Woods
& Waters edited by Ron Ellis 2005
The Black Bass as a Game Fish from Gigantic
Book of Fishing Stories edited by Nick
Lyons. 2007.
FOR MATERIAL ABOUT DR. HENSHALL THAT WAS
WRITTEN BY OTHERS SEE THE FOLLOWING.
James Alexander Henshall, M.D., pages 89-91 in Wildwood's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, January 1889. Also included a portrait of Henshall. A biography of Dr. Henshall, author not identified.
James A. Henshall, pages 89-100 in My Angling Friends by Fred Mather. 1901.
Dr. James Alexander Henshall 1836-1925, page 30 in Outdoor America magazine, III, No. 10, May, 1925. "Dr. James Alexander Henshall, Honorary National President of the Izaak Walton League of America, and America's leading authority on fish, especially the black bass, died at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, five minutes before hundreds of delegates to the third national convention in Chicago arose and cheered his reelection to office.
"When the cheering had subsided and the chairman was proceeding with the business at hand, a messenger brought a telegram announcing Dr. Henshall's death.
"The assembled delegates were stunned. They arose and with bowed heads stood in silent tribute to the memory of a man who for fifty years had devoted his life to the work of conserving our wild places and wild things for the boys and girls to come. A man who carried on for the past twenty years under physical conditions that would have broken the hearts of strong men; a man eighty-nine years old, whose eyesight had failed and who, though confined to his bed for the past five months, waged an heroic battle in OUTDOOR AMERICA against further pollution of the inland and coastal waters of this country."
James Alexander Henshall, pages 63-71 in 17 Famous Outdoorsmen by Marguerite Ives. 1929.
James Alexander Henshall, by Arnold Gingrich in McClane's New Standard Fishing Encyclopedia
Mr. Bass by Pete Byrnes, pages 92-97 in 1977 Sports Afield Fishing Annual
Dr. Henshall; Bass Fishing Pioneer, pages 62-71 in Sporting Classics magazine, Volume I, Issue 6, 1982 by Mike Creel.
Dr. James Henshall: The Father Of American Bass Fishing, by Jim Casada, pages 34-38 in Bassmaster magazine, Volume 30, No. 7, July/August 1997
Dr. Henshall's Crusade, pages 45-57 in The Bassing of New Hampshire by Jack Noon, 1999.
James A. Henshall…The Father of Reel Collecting, by Phil White, pages 4-7 in The Reel News magazine, Volume XI, Number 1, March 2001. (The magazine of the Old Reel Collectors Association, Inc.)
The Birth of Modern Bass Fishing by Jeff Kieny, pages 4-7 in National Fishing Lure Collectors Club Magazine, Volume 14, Number 2, December 2004.
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Bibliotheca Piscatoria by Westwood and Satchell, 1883, lists Book of the Black Bass by Henshall and shows publisher as Orange Judd Co. NY. 1882.
In May 1925 in the notice of Henshall's death, Forest and Stream credited him with the book title Florida Fish and Fishing. One section of Favorite Fish and Fishing does have that title, was it published in book form? In addition to those two books, Outdoor America magazine, May 1925, also listed Favorite Game Fish of Inland Waters and his autobiography as published books.
In his article on Dr. Henshall in Sporting Classics, Vol. I, Issue 6, 1982, Mike Creel credited him with the book Favorite Game Fish Of Inland Waters, 1922. From what I have been able to find about this title, it was announced but never published.
Outing magazine published a list of Outing Handbooks, which included the title Bass and Bass Fishing by Dr. Henshall. Evidently this book was never published. Most of their handbooks were published in the early 1900's before World War I.
A Renowned Piscator (State Marker 651, Cynthiana, S. of bridge, US 27, Harrison Co.)
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