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Author: A & G Wilson Fishing Rod & Tackle Manufacturers

Angling Business Card

No date circa circa 1855.  A & G Wilson 54 Princes St Edinburgh.  9cm x 6cm printed on thick pink card, supplier of fishing tackle to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Royal Crest to upper centre. Fly Dressers, Gentleman's Angling Cases, fitted up for Home or Abroad, Dealers in Foreign & British Birds. A very good + example, [23656]
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Author: A LOVER OF THE ART (GEORGE SMITH)

The Anglers Guide Containing Easy Instructions For The Youthfull Beginner and th erest

1828.  VII 136 pages, 12mo, frontis illus of fish, original printed paper boards, recent matching spine, originally published as The Gentleman's Angler. [7625]
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Author: A PRACTICAL ANGLER

The Angler's Almanac And Pocket Book For 1855. Being A Handbook And Guide To The Principal Rivers, Lakes And Fisheries In Great Britain, Ireland And Scotland And Containing All The Information Required For Sportsmen For The Year

1855.  G Cox.  106 pages, frontis and 13 full page plates from woodcuts, original printed paper wraps repair to spine with document tape. 3" 7.5cm split to paper along spine near lower edge. the rear flap is an advert for Thomas Weightman Atkinson, Tackle Dealer, a flimsy title and quite scarce especially in original paper covers, there were 2 other issues for 1853, 1854 W/S 1854. [16292]
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Author: ADAMS Joseph

Salmon and Trout Angling Its Theory and Practice On Southern Stream, Torrent River and Mountain Loch

n.d. circa 1920.  XIV 287 pages, Illus. vg. [3367]
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Author: AFLALO F.G.

Sunset Playgrounds Fishing Days and Others in California and Canada

1909.  1st Edn,.  XII 251 pages, 35 illus, vg. [525]
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Author: ALDRICH Bernard

The Ever Rolling Stream

1984.  1st Edn,.  165 pages, illus by Manuela Smith, vg+ in dj, Aldrich is the river keeper of the Broadlands Estate on the Test. [10940]
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Author: ALKEN, Henry Thomas

The National Sports of Great Britain. With Descriptions in English and French.

1904.  New edition.  D Appleton and Company, New York.  folio, chromolithographed frontispiece, facsimile of the 1823 title-page, 50 full-page engraved coloured plates after Alken. With accompanying description in English and French on most of the Sporting subjects practiced at the time. Including hawking, hunting, horse-racing, shooting, fishing, baiting, and combating animals. Some even browning to blank end papers, the contents clean and free of foxing. Bound in the publishers half red morocco, red cloth sides, gilt, top edges gilt, the binding clean and tight in vg condition First published in 1821, this facsimile published in London in 1903, and in New York in 1904 The London edition was bound in a red cloth the American edition in a much superior half leather. [21750]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

An Amateurs Anglers Days In Dovedale July 24th - August 14th 1884 to which is now added Dovedale revisited 1902

1910.  Phoenix Edn,.  Sampson, Low, Marston and Company Ltd.  XVI 154 pages, 4pp adverts, portrait frontis of Marsden + 12 other full page plates, publishers 1/4 white cloth over green cloth boards, gilt phoenix vignette to upper cover, vg. Marston in his preface to this edition that he has slightly revised Days In Dovedale and added the first 52 pages of Dovedale Revisited and calls it "The Phoenix Edition". The binding differs to that mentioned in Hampton's revised bibliography. [15556]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

An Old Man's Holiday

1900.  1st Edn,.  Sampson Low Marston and Co.  XII 140 pages, 4pp adverts, 16 plates, foxing to contents quite heavy to first few pages, big game angling bookplate of Jack Reece to front paste down, hinge paper cracking but still a tight copy in the green pictorial cloth with angling scene in white and black to upper board, head and tail of spine chipped. [16922]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

An Old Man's Holiday

1900.  1st Edn,.  Sampson Low Marston and Co.  XII 140 pages, 4pp adverts, 16 plates, inscription to FEP, foxing to contents quite heavy to first few pages, big game angling bookplate of Jack Reece to front paste down, bound in the green pictorial cloth with angling scene in white and black to upper board, some rubbing and loss to the white. [16923]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

Days In Clover

1892.  1st Edn,.  120 pages, TEG, advs, 12mo., full page illus, spotting to EP's, vg. [10537]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

Days In Clover

1892.  1st Edn,.  Sampson, Low, Marston and Co.  VIII 120 pages, full page illus, large paper edition limited to 250 copies, numbered and initialed, vg copy; white card covers with printed glassine wrapper, chipped on corners and loss on spine. [14032]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

Days In Clover

1892.  1st Edn,.  Samson, Low, Marston and Company.  VIII 120 pages, 34pp advs, 12mo., frontis + 5 plates from photographs, publishers white parchment spine over floral paper covered boards, dust soiling to spine light rubbing to edge, presentation inscription to "Mr W Watts with E Marstons kind regards" to FEP, this binding not noted in Hampton revised 194. [18101]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

Days In Clover

1892.  1st Edn,.  Samson, Low, Marston and Company.  120 pages, 30pp advs, 12mo., publishers printed paper covers showing angling scene and title to upper cover, 1 corner creased, vg-. [15466]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

Days In Clover

1892.  1st Edn,.  120 pages, illus, large paper edition limited to 250 copies, numbered and initialed, vg+ copy; white card covers with glassine cover, chipped on corners and loss on spine. [6213]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

Days In Clover

1892.  1st Edn,.  Samson, Low, Marston and Company.  120 pages, AEG, 30pp advs, 12mo., publishers green pebbled cloth, gilt title to upper board, a fine copy. [15018]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

Dovedale Revisited And Other Holiday Sketches

1902.  Sampson, Low, Marston and Co Ltd.  XIV 130 pages, 16 full page plates no text illus, spotting to contents, green cloth with gilt title and vignette to upper boards, vg. [12447]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

On A Sunshine Holyday

1897.  1st Edn,.  Sampson, Low, Marston and Co.  VIII 140 pages, 16 full page plates on India paper, lacks FEP, this edition limited to 250 numbered copies on hand made paper, numbered and initialed, original 1/4 parchment covers, parchment mottled, g+. [15655]
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Author: AMATEUR ANGLER E.M.Marston

On A Sunshine Holyday

1897.  1st Edn,.  Sampson, Low, Marston and Co.  VIII 140 pages, adverts, AEG, 12mo., 16 full page plates on India paper, green cloth, gilt title to upper board, vg. [16932]
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Author: AMPHLETT F.H.

Everybody's Book On Angling

nd 1905.  1st Edn,.  W.R.Russell and Co.  169 pages, 12mo, + game diary advert, text illus throughout. Original printed green cloth boards, front board as title page, a small book with 8 chapters on coarse fishing, 1 on game fishing, and details of tackle, Thames angling described, hints on fishing the Broads and rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk, scarce. [13502]
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Author: AMPHLETT F.H.

The Thames: Where To Fish, And How With Illustrations And Particulars Of Over 250 Principal Swims

nd circa 1906.  126 pages, advs, loose errata slip, chapter head illus from photos, pictorial green card covers, spine repair with matching card to upper 1 1/2 inch split on lower edge of spine o/w a vg copy of what is a fragile book often lacking the card covers, scarce. [11852]
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Author: AN ANGLER

The Fly Makers Hand Book Illustrated With Colour Plates Representing Upwards of Fifty Of The Most Useful Artificial Flies For Trout And Grayling Fishing

nd 1886.  1st Edn,.  Liverpool.  45 pages, 12mo., 9 hand coloured plates, 7 being of flies 2 of steps in tying the fly, original green cloth with gilt title and fishing vignette in borders to upper board. A rare and fragile title seldom found in vg condition. [7333]
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Author: AN EX-PRESIDENT OF THE KINROSS-SHIRE FISHING CLUB

The Lochleven Angler

1874.  1st Edn,.  George Barnet.  Kinross.  VI 144 pages, coloured frontis of Loch Leven from Kinross house pier, text illus, large folding map, spotting to first and last few pages, front hinge paper cracked but a tight copy, blue cloth with angling scene in black to upper board duplicated on rear with blind stamp, rubbing to head and tail of spine and wear to spine edges. [15396]
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Author: ANGLER

The Universal Angler Or The Art Improved In All Parts Especially In Fly Fishing Describing The Several Sports Of Fresh-Water Fish With Their Baits Also The Names, Colours And Seasons Of All The Most Useful Flies Together With Directions For Making Each Fly Artificially In The Most Exact Manner etc.

1766.  1st.  VIII 160 pages, engraved frontis The Anglers Arms with 6 artificial flies below 4 other plates of fish, frontis and plates some offsetting to text, 1 page badly opened with some partial loss to blank margin not effecting text. Angling bookplate of John McKinley to front paste down contemporary full calf binding. W/S note a reprint of "The Art Of Angling" by R Bowlker with additions W/S 14. [19055]
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Author: ANGLERS'' EVENING

Anglers' Evening Papers By Members of the Manchester Anglers Assoc. Second Series

1882.  1st Edn,.  Manchester, London.  VIII 283 pages, full page and text illus, Large Paper Edition, original cloth decorated in gilt and black, small neat circular paper label to spine re Manchester Anglers Assoc. some dust soiling to cloth. There is no indication how many copies were produced as large paper and whether the other 2 in the series were also produced in large paper; I have been unable to find any reference to a large paper edition. [12554]
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Author: Angling Bookplate

Anglers Benevolent Society

nd Circa1880.  9.5 cm x 10cm bookplate laid down on paper. An attractive plate printed in blue with central image of the good Samaritan comforting a fallen man with heat shaped shield with clasped hands and fishes below. In oval border with running title resting on two fish with sprigs of rushes as borders, to the top the caption "Founded in 1879". I can find little about the society other than Robert Marston served as president of the society for more than 20 years, [22603]
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Author: Angling Match

At Staines (R. Thames) On February 17, 1935, In Aid Of The London Anglers Benevolent Fund

1935.  Folding card, title page lists the event and committee, inner 2 pages listing the prizes and there doners. The rear flap the rules i.e., Boundaries- Laleham Ferry to Road Junction Runnymede, Towing Path Only. Special notes the distribution of prizes. A very good example with centre fold crease. [22646]
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Author: Angling Photograph

Angling Photograph

.  A Mid-19th century photograph 25cm x 20cm laid down on card, showing a young angler fishing from a ford to his right is a crossing or weir? There is a gentleman wearing a black jacket and top hat seated on a fence watching the boy. With a background of bushes and trees and a meadow, In the far distance can be seen the spire of Salisbury Cathedral. Old pencil notes to lower blank margin of the card "Salisbury Wilts" no other identifying marks circa 1870. Some light dust soiling a few chips to the card edge. [22613]
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Author: ANGLING TIMES

The Second Angling Times Book

1962.  1st Edn,.  E.M. Art and Publishing Ltd.  143 pages, illus including drawings by Bernard Venables, sml 4to. some browning to end papers and spotting to closed page edges, vg in dj. dj showing some creasing and loss to edges, strengthening [20776]
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Author: ANON.

The Angler's Companion Being a Description Of Where To Fish And How To Fish, The Various Swims In The Horse And Groom, Lea Bridge And White House

circa 1838.  2nd Edn,.  W and T Piper.  36 pages, woodcut frontis showing the fishery, folding map of the waters, woodcut vignette to title page and in text, bound in recent pink covered boards, leather title label to spine. The original pink printed paper wraps bound in, a very good copy. The 1st edition appeared under The Anglers Companion And Guide To The White Horse Fishery Describing The principle Swims, the Best Tackle Methods And Baits And The Haunts For Jack And Pike Circa 1835, all editions are hard to find particularly with the paper wraps. W/S p7. [14161]
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Author: ANON.

The Anglers Guide Containing Easy Instructions For The Youthful Beginning With Several Observations on Fishing Pointing Out The Proper Times And Seasons For The Differant Kinds Of Fish By A Lover Of The Art

1828.  1st thus Edn,.  Joseph Smith.  V 136 pages, 12mo, engraved frontis of fish, cropped contents dust soiled, original printed paper covered boards dust soiled, chipping to corners, lacking paper spine but a tight copy, loose bookplate of W Keith Rollo and another for T Spence, Edinburgh, a scarce title, first published as The Gentleman's Angler 1726 Westwood 8 [14472]
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Author: ANON.

The Anglers Guide Containing Easy Instructions For The Youthful Beginning With Several Observations on Fishing Pointing Out The Proper Times And Seasons For The Differant Kinds Of Fish By A Lover Of The Art

1828.  1st thus Edn,.  V 136 pages, 12mo, engraved frontis of fish, some spotting to contents, old repair to fore edge margin of one page, repair age yellowing just obscuring some letters, later 1/2 calf, a scarce title, first published as The Gentleman's Angler 1726 Westwood 8 [12497]
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Author: ANON.

The Angler's Pocket Book or Compleat English Angler Containing All That is Necessary to be Known as the Art Also Nobbs's Celebrated Treatise on the Art of Trolling with an Appendix in which are Improvements and Discoveries Never Before Published

1805.  3rd Edn,.  148 pages, 12mo. lacks engraved frontis, original 1/2 leather calf binding rubbed, front hinge tender, g, scarce. [2075]
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Author: ANON.

The Book Of Fishes

1835.  2nd Edn,.  VIII 160 pages, 8pp advs, 12mo, frontis illus with text illus, later 19th century cloth vg, book aimed at the young but contains 14 page section on the art of angling. [2808]
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Author: ANON.

the Boys Own Jolly Angling Book Showing Tackle And Baits Required

nd Circa 1870.  no publisher given.  unpaginated, 16 pages, woodcut illustrations in text, light blue paper wraps, title and fishing vignettes to upper flap, advert for A Carter and Co, fishing, rods and tackle manufacturers to rear. A vg+ copy, the first two pages are a guide to the rivers, ponds and canals in the vicinity of London. [15389]
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Author: ANON.

The Complete Angler With Full Instructions How When And Where To take The Best Kinds Of Fish; the Proper Tackle And Baits Required To Which Is Added A Guide To Bottom Fishing etc....

C1855.  1st Edn,.  G Purkess.  36 pages, 12mo., woodcut frontis torn and relayed at one corner, old repair lower corner margin small loss + woodcuts with text. Printed brick red paper covers, dust soiled some surface rubbing. WS 12 notes the same title published by H Elliot but does not have the last leaf, laws relating to angling, a copy with Thomas Satchell and J C Lynn bookplate with Purkess published in blue wraps sold at auction 2005. [15714]
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Author: ANON.

The North Country Angler or The Art of Angling as Practiced in the Northern Counties of England

1817.  4th with additions Edn,.  Longman Hurst Reese Orme & Brown.  89 pages, Adv leaf, uncut, 2 ownership plates to front paste down, Thos Stanford, H.W.Stanford, cracking to inner hinge paper but a tight copy, original printed paper covered boards rubbed on edges and dust soiling not recent velum spine. [15631]
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Author: ANON.

The North Country Angler or The Art of Angling as Practised in the Northern Counties of England

1817.  4th with additions Edn,.  89 pages, Adv leaf, some spotting to last few pages, original printed paper covers, boards dust soiled, later matching spine. [8671]
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Author: ANON.

The North Country Angler or The Art of Angling as Practised in the Northern Counties of England

1817.  4th with additions Edn,.  89 pages, engraved vignette to title page in contemporary 1/2 calf marbled boards, vg. [9666]
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Author: ANON.

Routledges's Handbook Of Fishing

1867.  1st Edn,.  IV 59 pages, text illus, pictorial paper covered card covers rubbed, new matching spine, mark on rear board, some soiling to contents, g+. [7677]
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Author: ANON.

The Young Angler Naturalist And Pigeon And Rabbit Fancier With Hints As To The Management Of Silk worms, The Aquarium Etc

n/d circa 1860.  1st Edn,.  124 pages, frontis and text illus, some browning to contents, lacks rear EP, inscription on FEP, original blind stamped cloth with gilt title and decoration to upper board, head and tail of spine rubbed, cloth darkened to outer edges, g+. A cheaply produced title, and often found in poor condition. [11480]
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Author: ANON. (Bertram James Glass ?)

The Border Angler, A Guide Book To The Tweed And Its Tributories And The Other Small Streams Commanded By The North British Railway

1858.  1st Edn,.  William P Nimmo.  Edinburgh.  viii 195 pages, adv leaf, large folding map of the Border Streams before title page split along one fold. Publishers blind stamped red cloth, with gilt fishing basket and rods vignette to upper cover, repeated in blind stamp to rear board. Rubbing to head of spine small chip to rear spine edge. WS 38 [22136]
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Author: ARBERY Len

The Complete Book Of River Fishing

1993.  1st Edn,.  David Charles.  Newton Abbot.  167 pages, large 8vo., illus in colour and b/w, personal inscription to Len Head signed Len Arbery, Len Head author of "tench" and other angling titles and contributions to Angling Magazines, fine in dj. A well presented book. [21239]
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Author: ARMSTRONG James

Wany Blossoms, A Book Of Song With A Brief Treatise On Fishing With The Fly, Worm, Minnow and Roe, Sketches of Border Life and Fox and Otter Hunting

1879.  2nd enlarged Edn,.  Hexham.  172 pages, contemporary name in ink on title, original green cloth with gilt fly to upper board, much on sport in the borders. [12096]
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Author: ASHLEY COOPER John

A Line On Salmon

1983.  1st Edn,.  H.F. & G.Witherby Ltd.,.  240 pages, TEG, full page and text illus, including colour illus from photographs, pictorial end papers, one of a limited edition of 35 copies signed by John Ashley Cooper, this copy un-numbered. A fine copy bound in 1/4 tan calf in slipcase. Although there is no indication the book was from the publishers archive copies. [20714]
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Author: ASHLEY COOPER John

A Salmon Fishers Odyssey

1982.  1st Edn,.  H.F.& G. Witherby Ltd.  352 pages, lge 8vo, AEG, illus with 7 colour plates and 65 text photographs, limited to 20 copies, this being No. 6 signed by Ashley Cooper bound in 1/2 dark blue morroco in slipcase, the 1/2 title frontis, title page and first 6 pages have slight centre crease mark. I would assume down in production (the book came from the publishers archive) o/w a fine copy of a classic title with chapters on the rivers of England, Scotland and Wales. Ireland the Blackwater, Norway and Iceland. [20634]
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Author: ASHLEY COOPER John

A Salmon Fishers Odyssey

1996.  new.  Flyfisher''s Classic Library.  Bovey Tracy.  352 pages, illustrated with 7 colour plates and 64 text photographs, limited to 500 copies, bound in full green bonded leather in slipcase, fine. Includes a new forward. [23645]
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Author: ASHLEY-DODD Major G.L.

Fisherman's Log, Fishing Yarns And Theories

1929.  1st Edn,.  184 pages, illus with woodcuts by Barbara Greg, vg. [11832]
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Author: ATWOOD CLARK H.

For Fishermen Only

1934.  Phillip Allen.  274 pages, advs, publishers cloth, fade marks along top and bottom edge, still in the dust jacket, dj chipped at head of spine, salmon and trout angling. [14710]
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Author: AYRTON William

The Adventures of a Salmon in the River Dee by a Friend of the Family Together with Notes for Fly Fishers in North Wales

n.d.1853.  William Pickering.  104 pages, lithographs title page, 8 plates 4 of which are tinted, original printed card covers, 1 corner chipped, later paper spine not recent bookplate to inner blank of front cover, small stamp for the Aquatic Research Institute on opposite blank contained in a 1/4 leather slipcase, quite scarce, especially with the printed covers. Westwood Satchell 2 [2076]
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Author: AYRTON William

Mr Barnacles And His Boat

1856.  Whitaker and Co, Chester.  oblong 8vo., title and 24 plates with text, some foxing, original printed paper covered boards lightly dust soiled with later cloth jacket, vg. Mr Barnacles experiences fishing in Wales. He was dismayed to find that the preserve can only be fishes. [14316]
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