The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line

William Harris’s magnum opus, a work that took him nearly 25 years and over a million dollars (today’s equivalent) to complete. The book was issued in 20 fascicles, each containing two spectacular large chromolithographs and a quire of text. Harris intended for the book to serve as a “primer of ichthyology” for anglers and was to include 80 plates in two volumes. Unfortunately, production stalled after one volume and the second was never completed.