Print collector's quarterly (12.1925)

ANGLING PRINTS AND RESEARCH
By WALTER SHAW SPARROW

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youth in himself ? If so, let him begin
select enough angling prints to keep his mind out
doors from the year 1496, when the first treatise
fishing with a rod and line was published by Wynkyn
de Worde, to the present day.
When a Peter Pan of research can do this without
growing up into the present general habit of self-pity,
he proves to himself, and to others also, that the mis-
chance of drawing blank many a thousand times acts on
his mind in a proper way—as a tonic, not as a tribulation
to be damned. Many researchers are not Peter Pans at
all, but good fellows who are comfort-loving dabblers ;
they take their ease in widely beaten paths, where
minor collectors by the dozen enjoy half-holidays,
chattering about market prices, and profits big and
small, or about “ finds ” to be made at auctions. No
doubt they are print-lovers, but if you ask them to
attack a really hard job in research, bitter enough to
be worth fighting against, their ardour evaporates like
steam from an open pan of boiling water. Then they
set me thinking of those youngsters who follow a

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THOROUGH passion for research being a
genuine Peter Pan, does any print-collector
wish to test completely this good spirit of
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