Author:
NOBBES Robert
Title:
The Complete Troller, Or The Art Of Trolling With A Description Of All The Utensils, Instruments, Tackling and Materials Requisite There To, With Rules And Directions How To Use Them. As Also A Brief Account Of Most Of The Principle Rivers In England
Price:
£1200.00
Year:
1682
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
T James for Theo Helder
Summary:
10 prelims + 1-78 + 2 pages, 12mo., 9x15cm., text engraving to page 37 & 38, pages closely trimmed occasionally touching running title, small single 4mm worm hole at very bottom margin of 8pp., some spotting and age browning, contemporary calf, double gilt ruled borders rubbing to edges. the true first is very scarce. there is a 1790's facsimile Nobbes commonly called "The Father Of Trollers" was not the first to write on the practice but was the earliest that discoursed at large, and in substantial shape, on it. W.S 156, Wing N1193, Heckscher 1445
Ref:
17037
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