Author:
FRANCIS Francis
Title:
A Book on Angling. Being a Complete Treatise on The Art of Angling in Every Branch with Explanatory Plates, etc. To which is added A Memoir of the Author
Price:
£85.00
Year:
1885
Edition:
6th revised and improved to which is added a memoir of the author. (1887)
Summary:
xxxii 529 pages, illus with 16 plates, 6 of which being hand coloured of trout and salmon flies. Four of the six coloured plates are of classic salmon flies, and a large portion of the text is devoted to tying salmon flies as well as recommended patterns for various rivers. Bookplate to front paste down also an ink signature to the top blank margin of the first page. Publishers burgundy cloth, the cloth clean and unfaded.VG The title page is dated 1885, below the words sixth edition "revised and improved (to which is added a memoir of the author 1887)", Francis died in 1886.The memoir extends to 16 pages. A classic and comprehensive title on angling. ?85
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