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'Ephemera, Pseud'.

A Handbook of Angling: teaching Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom-Fishing and Salmon-Fishing. With the Natural History of River Fish amnd the best Modes of catching them. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Longman Brown Green and Longmans, 1847

301.30 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1847
Author
'Ephemera, Pseud'.
Publishers
Longman Brown Green and Longmans
Keyword
angling, fishing, fly-fishing, bottom-fishing, salmon fishing, trolling, edward fitzgibbon
Languages
English

Description

Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with woodcut illustrations in the text; original green ribbed cloth, boards with multiple frame borders in blind, gilt back, uncut, cream endpapers, a remarkably well-reserved bright, crisp copy. With personal armorial bookplate on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Westley & Clark on rear paste-down. CRISP, ELEGANT COPY OF AN ANGLING CLASSIC IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. 'Highly esteemed. The chapters on fly-fishing are unusually clear and comprehensible' (Westwood & Satchell). Westwood & Satchell, pp. 85-6.