Author:
MACKINTOSH Alexander
Title:
The Modern Fisher or The Driffield Angler In Two Parts Containing Descriptions Of The Different Kinds Of Fresh Water Fish and the Best Methods of Taking Them in Rivers, Lakes and Fish Ponds With Full Directions Of Many Artificial Flies For Every Month In The Season To Which Is Added Instructions For Shooting, With Rules For The Breeding, Breaking, and Management of Pointers and Spaniels and the Choice of Guns for Game and Wildfowl With a Description of the Forest of Blair in Perthshire belonging to his Grace the Duke of Athol and the Manner of Killing the Deer, also a Short Treatise On Coursing and The Training Of Greyhounds
Price:
£150.00
Year:
nd 1815
Edition:
2nd Edn,
Publisher:
Henry Mozley
City of Publication:
Derby
Summary:
XII 249 pages, contents leaf, 12mo., vg, original 1/2 leather, leather corners missing, head of spine rubbed, front joint cracked but a tight copy. Although the title is the Modern Fisher nearly 100 pages are shooting and dog related including the choice of fowling pieces, the author recommended 38 to 39 inch barrels, instructions for shooting well, dog training, game, the forests of Blair, coursing and dog disease. Chute 415 1806 edition, W/S 138.
Ref:
16716
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