Search Results: Art Of Angling by Thomas Best

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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Fair, No Dust Jacket B. and R. Crosby & Co. 10th edition, 1814 8VO, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcover. Marbleized boards with leather spine and tips. Boards are rubbed, frayed and soiled. Lower front corner cracked. Leather spine is rubbed and worn. Newer maroon label with title in gold between raised bands. Fore edge soil. Repaired cracked hinges. Previous owner's name on inside paste down. Endpaper, frontis and title pages are cracked along hinge and very delicate, holding on by a hair. Occasional foxing to text. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. The Art of Angling, Confirmed By Actual Experience, Interspersed with Several New and Recent Discoveries: To Which is Now Added Nobb's Complete Troller: The Whole Forming a Complete Museum, for the Lovers of That Pleasing and Rational Recreation. Also Prognostics of the Weather.

London: Baldwin, Craddock & Joy, 1822. This is the eleventh edition, revised, corrected and rearranged. Original (or at least old) brown leather spine and corners with original red title label on spine. Boards have new marbled paper on, also new endpapers have been fitted. A previous owner's name and date ()ctober 12th 1849) on rev of frontispiece, some foxing to outer pages and a few other brown markings to the inner pages, but otherwise a good tight copy of this two-hundred year old fishing book. Covers fresh water angling in England, the types of fish caught, fishing rods, bait and flies - real or artificial., forecasting the weather with and without the use of a barometer, and the laws regarding fishing at the time. Also contains "The Complete Troller, or the Art of Trolling; with Descriptions of all the Instruments, Tackle and Materials Requisite for a Gentleman Troller, and Directions how to use them" by Robert Nobbs which deals with catching Pike. 255pp plus 2 page… Read More

London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822. Eleventh edition. Engraved frontispiece of artificial flies, woodcut title page vignette. 1 vols. 12mo. Original printed boards, uncut, covers detached, front endpapers renewed, with tape repairs, apart from a few pressed-flower stains (the flowers are present), internally fine. Eleventh edition. Engraved frontispiece of artificial flies, woodcut title page vignette. 1 vols. 12mo. Westwood & Satchell, p. 31