England’s Sea Fisheries: The Commercial Sea Fisheries of England and Wales since 1300

If anyone should ask why a book on English fisheries was important, they could consider the fact, stated by one of the contributors to this comprehensive history, that the British (sic) fishing industry, in the early part of the last century, was the most successful that the world had ever seen. The book is, however, confined to English fisheries, with some attention given to Wales, but little to Scotland, on the grounds that the last comparable work for England was written a hundred years ago, whereas Scotland has been much more recently covered (though not, I think, on...