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Author: JACKSON John

The Practical Fly Fisher

1899.  4th Edn,.  Gibbings and company.  72 pages, advs, 10 hand coloured plates representing 120 natural and artificial flies, ownership inscription to FEP J.P.Reay, Westwood, Leeds. On rear blank 4 ink drawings of flies to gut well drawn, a vg copy in original green cloth, gilt decoration to upper boards. This edition has a 15 page addendum by John E Miller, Miller states that the 2nd and 3rd editions had a serious fault in the colouring of the flies which he pointed out to the publishers, the result being this edition has a facsimile reproduction of the 1st edition, an important work on the north country fly. [18169]
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Author: JACKSON John

The Practical Fly Fisher

1899.  4th Edn,.  Gibbings and company.  72 pages, advs, 10 hand coloured representing 120 natural and artificial flies, a vg+ copy in original green cloth, gilt decoration to upper boards. This edition has a 15 page addendum by John E Miller, Miller states that the 2nd and 3rd editions had a serious fault in the colouring of the flies which he pointed out to the publishers, the result being this edition has a facsimile reproduction of the 1st edition, an important work on the north country fly. [8078]
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Author: JACKSON John

The Practical Fly Fisher More Particularly For Grayling On Umber

1854.  1st Edn,.  Charles Farlow.  58 pages, 2 pages subscribers lists, 10 full page hand coloured plates representing 64 flies + text illus, light spotting to title page and dedication page. A very good copy in the original dark blue blind stamped cloth with gilt title to upper board. A classic work on the making of flies, an indispensable handbook of generations of north country flytyers until well into the 20th century. Jackson was born and lived along the river Yore, a well known grayling river. the first edition is particularly scarce. WS 122. [14760]
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Author: JACKSON John

The Practical Fly Fisher More Particularly For Grayling On Umber

1854.  Charles Farlow.  58 pages, 2 pages subscribers list, 10 full page hand-coloured plates representing 64 flies + text illus, light spotting to title page and browning in part to the inner margin of the dedication page. A very good copy in the original dark blue blind stamped cloth with gilt title to upper board som discoloration in places to the cloth. A classic work on the making of flies, an indispensable handbook of generations of north country flytyers until well into the 20th century. Jackson was born and lived along the river Yore, a well-known grayling river. the first edition is particularly scarce. WS 122. [22650]
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Author: JACKSON John

The Practical Fly-Fisher More Particularly for Grayling or Umber

1862.  2nd Edn,.  57 pages, subscriber's list, 10 uncoloured engraved plates, original dark blue blind stamped cloth rubbing to head and tail of spine, neat ownership stamp to title page margin, The 1st edition was published in 1854 by Charles Farlow, the 2nd also published by Farlow contains a different title page, noted on the title page 'price, with coloured plates 7s,6d, plain .......5s'. A difficult title to find in the early edition, an important title on north country flies. [11464]
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Author: JACKSON John

The Practical Fly-Fisher More Particularly for Grayling or Umber

1880.  3rd Edn,.  57 pages, subscriber's list, 10 full page plates depicting 64 hand coloured examples of flies, inner hinge paper cracked, o/w a very clean bright copy with gilt title to upper covers. [2083]
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Author: JACKSON John

The Practical Fly-Fisher More Particularly for Grayling or Umber

1880.  3rd Edn,.  John Slark.  Leeds.  57 pages, 10 full page plates depicting 64 hand coloured examples of flies, contents clean and fresh, pencil name TETLEY on front fly leaf. Teley of Ligram Bridge appears in the subscribers list, publishers green cloth, gilt title to upper board, old mark lower inner corner and top edge inner corner possibly ink but barely noticeable. "Jackson and Theakston works were the indispensable handbook of generations of North country flytyers" (Magee fly fishing north country traditions) Westwood 123 [16058]
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Author: JACKSON John

The Practical Fly-Fisher More Particularly for Grayling or Umber

1880.  3rd Edn,.  John Slark.  Leeds.  57 pages, 10 full page plates depicting 64 hand coloured examples of flies, light spotting to title and last page, Re-cased in the publishers green cloth with gilt title to upper boards, vg. "Jackson and Theakston works were the indispensable handbook of generations of North country flytyers" (Magee fly fishing north country traditions) Westwood 123 [12652]
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Author: JACKSON W.S.

Notes Of A Fly Fisher An Attempt At A Grammar Of The Art For Beginners With Hints On Health

1927.  1st Edn,.  191 pages, text illus, vg in rexine binding. [3694]
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Author: JACKSON W.S.

Notes Of A Fly Fisher An Attempt At A Grammar Of The Art For Beginners With Hints On Health

1927.  1st Edn,.  Fishing Gazette.  191 pages, AEG, text illus, bound in full brown leather presumably issued as a de-luxe edition, usually found in a rexine binding. [13934]
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Author: JARDINE Sir William

British Salmoniddae

1979.  facsimile rep. was first published between 1839 and 1841 in parts. Edn,.  Decimus.  large folio, 12 colour plates, text illus, limited to 500 numbered copies, 1/2 brown morroco binding in slipcase, vg [6606]
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Author: JENKINS J.Geraint

Nets and Coracles

1974.  1st Edn,.  Newton Abbot.  335 pages, illus, fine in dj. Fishing and design of the coracle [1637]
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Author: JENKS Paul Tight Lines

With Rod & Line In And Around Gloucestershire How, When And Where To Fish

1937.  1st Edn,.  The British Publishing Co.  Gloucester.  48 pages, illus with drawings by J.Camm, pictorial card covers. A vg clean copy, quite scarce. [17110]
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Author: JESSE Edward

An Angler Rambles

1836.  1st Edn,.  318 pages, corners cut from FEP, vg- in original publishers cloth, Thames fishing, trolling in Staffs, the Test etc.VG- [9307]
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Author: John Bailey

Fly Fishing in Ireland

2003.  1st Edn.  Gill & Macmillan.  Dublin.  157 (4), 4to illustrated throughout with colour photographs, a fine copy in DJ. "Anecdote, history, experience, and in-depth information on all aspects of fly fishing in Ireland." [23648]
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Author: JOHNSON A.E.B.

Gravel Pit Coarse Fishing

1964.  1st Edn,.  Herbert Jenkins.  96 pages, 12mo., text illus, vg in dj, dj strengthened to verso of corners and head and tail of spine. [16737]
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Author: JOHNSON A.E.B.

Gravel Pit Coarse Fishing

1964.  1st Edn,.  Herbert Jenkins.  96 pages, 12mo., text illus, vg+ in likewise dj, published in the "how to catch them series" [16081]
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Author: JOHNSON Eldridge John

Tarpomania The Madness Of Fishing

1908.  1st Edn,.  Frederick William Stack.  New York.  27 pages, TEG, 4 plates from photos, water silk end papers, big game angling bookplate of Jack Reece to front paste down. Reece held the world record for a 6 gilled shark in the late 1980's, bound in full olive green morroco with gilt leaping tarpon to upper board, inner gilt tooling to boards, spine in 6 compartments, spine fading to brown as usual. [16694]
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Author: JOHNSON Stephen

Fishing From Afar

2004.  1st thus Edn,.  Flyfishing Classic Library.  Moretonhampstead.  xvi 154 pages, adv, TEG, b/w and colour illus from photographs, full bonded leather binding in slipcase, limited to 150 numbered copies. A fine copy, new introduction by Tom Fort and forward by Bill Johnson and some new adverts have been added. Johnson was shot down in 1942 spending the rest of the war in a POW camp, where he wrote this book of reminiscence and instruction on salmon trout and sea trout fishing. [19192]
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Author: Johnson, T.B.

The Sportsman's Cyclopaedia; Comprising A Complete Elucidation of the Science and Practice of Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, Fishing, Hawking, Cockfighting, and other Sports and Pastimes of Great Britain Embellished with a profusion of highly finished engravings, after Landseer, Ward, Cooper, Hancock, and other eminent artists.

1848.  revised.  Henry H Bohn.  2 volumes . vi, 940, 5 pp. 57 woodcut and steel engraved full-page plates. Bound in a contemporary ? green calf red title labels. Schwerdt only list the 1831 one volume 1st edition (vol 1 271pp) as does Chute, 351, as Swift 305-01 but notes this edition, Westward Satchel 124, list the 1831 edition with footnote (A few copies re-issued with new title-page and additional illustrations by Mr Bohn in 1848.) [23501]
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Author: JONES J.W.

The Salmon

1959.  1st. Edn,.  Collins.  xvi 192 pages, illus, name on FEP o/w fine in dj. [8213]
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Author: JORGENSEN Poul

Salmon Flies Their Character Style and Dressing

1978.  1st Edn,.  Harrisburg,USA.  256 pages, illus, tipped onto 1/2 title newspaper cutting of obituary of salmon fisher unrelated to the book, o/w vg in dj. [7711]
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Author: Journal

Fly Fishers Journal 1933-34

nd Circa 1935.  44 pages of hand written dated description of days fishing interspersed with hand drawn maps, photographs, cut outs of flies, fish etc. Approx. size 20 cm x 15cm, 8" x 6", bound in black 1/2 leather. A wife's detailed account of fishing excursions beginning April 30th in Derbyshire fishing at Ashford + Twyford Bridge, Makins Bridge etc, the rivers Maun Medon etc approx 28 pages. September fishing at Ullaapoll Sutherland, Lazonby, starting again in May 1934 back in Derbyshire at the same spots, August fishing Breconshire etc. the diary details weather and river conditions, flies, the fish etc. includes a loose school report from Cavendish School, Matlock for 1907 for Arthur Guy Wall + a loose photo presumably of Wall in uniform. A well put together diary of fishing in England before the war. [21243]
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Author: J.S. (JOHN SMITH)

The Complete Fisher The True Art Of Angling etc Revised and corrected by W.Wright and other experienced anglers

Circa 1750.  J.Hazard and J.Wright.  London.  First published in 1696 this copy being the 11th edition neither ESTC or Westwood give a firm date for this edition. A rare work in any edition not listed in the Simpson angling library Westwood notes "This minute work by an anonymous writer forms one of the marked features of most angling book collections partly from its merits as a manual, but far more from its rarity only a few copies of the earlier issues having escaped the wear and tear of time" Westwood 181-184 ESTC- R32045 24 mo 11.5 cm x 5cm (iv)- 164 pages wood engraved frontis 8 wood crude wood cuts of fish within text. Loss to top corner of frontis affecting image some loss to lower blank margin slight chipping to lower bottom edge and corner of title page .. Some edge rubbing to corners of text not touching text. Ownership name "John Cotrell" to title page and verso of frontis dated 1773.Tightly bound and recased with new end papers, original boards and part of spine retained. [20807]
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