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The British Angler: or, A Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling.: Together with Supplemental Discourses...Also, Excellent Reciepts for Dressing of Fish...Illustrated with Copper-Plates Curiously Engraved. The Whole compiled from approved Authors, and above Thirty Years Experience. By...who has added a Versification o
by WILLIAMSON, John
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WILLIAMSON, John. The British Angler: or, A Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling...Together with Supplemental Discourses...Also, Excellent Reciepts for Dressing of Fish...Illustrated with Copper-Plates Curiously Engraved. The Whole compiled from approved Authors, and above Thirty Years Experience. By...who has added a Versification of the principle Heads...12mo, contemporary speckled calf (slight cracking at joints; one corner rubbed), red morocco lettering piece, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, engraved frontispiece by George Bickham Jr., pp. viii, 318, [10] Index + 3 fine folding plates engraved by Benjamin Cole. London: J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge, 1740.
First Edition. An unusually nice copy of a book most often found either rebound, repaired or worn. "One of the best of the manuals, but without any special value beyond. There is a voluminous chapter on pastes, which is a general raking together of all antecedent recipes of the kind, medieval and modern."-Westwood & Satchell, p. 241. With cipher and coronet bookplate of Panshanger (seat of Earl Cowper); and Lamb family lion and coronet bookplate of the Library, Brocket Hall. Heckscher 2273.Reviews
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- Bookseller
- Howard S. Mott, Inc
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1156
- Title
- The British Angler: or, A Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling.
- Author
- WILLIAMSON, John
- Illustrator
- George Bickham, Jr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. Hodges
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1740's
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Angling
- Size
- 12mo
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Howard S. Mott, Inc
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About Howard S. Mott, Inc
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