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Oliver The Younger Stephen
Scenes and Recollections of Fly-Fishing, in Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland. IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
Chapman & Hall, 1834
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Year of publication
1834
Author
Oliver The Younger Stephen
Publishers
Chapman & Hall
Keyword
sports, pastimes, fishing, angling, fly-fishing, northumberland, cumberland, westmorland, chatto, stephen oliver the younger, william andrew chatto, sports, pastimes, angling, scenes, recollections, fly-fishing, northumberland, cumberland
Languages
English
Description
Sm. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, with engraved title-vignette and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout, front free endpaper and title lightly spotted; original patterned cloth; gilt back, uncut, backstrip chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail, joints lightly rubbed with two or three small losses of cloth, else a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy in wholly unrestored contemporary binding. With the nineteenth century trade ticket of Combe of Leicester on front paste-down. 'Stephen Oliver the Younger' (so titled) is the pseudonym of William Andrew Chatto. A minor angling classic, this work contains two sings, 'The Angler's Call' and 'The Angler's Invitation', which were afterwards included in the 'Newcastle Fishers' Garlands'. In the appendix the author gives a well-written review of the older angling literature frequently quoted by Westwood & Stachell. Westwood & Satchell, p.162.
