Author:
GENTLEMAN
Title:
The Gentleman Angler: Containing Short, Plain And Easy Instructions Whereby The Most Ignorant Beginner May In A short Time Become A Perfect Artist In Angling For Salmon, Salmon-Peal, Trout, Pike, Carp, Perch, Barbel, Tench, Bream, Chub, Greyling, Mullets, Flounders, Roach, Dace, Gudgeon, etc. With Several Observations On Angling, Angle Rods and Artificial Flies, How To Chuse The Best Hair, And Indian Grass, Of The Proper Times And Seasons for River And Pond Fishing, When Fish Spawn And What Baits Are Chiefly To Be Used etc.,
Price:
£350.00
Year:
1736
Edition:
2nd Edition with large additions Edn,
Publisher:
A Bettesworth and C Hitch
Summary:
200pp (5pp) index (3pp) adverts, Small 8vo ownership inscription for Edw Salmon Ensign 87th P.W.G Regiment 1794 to front end paper. Later spine matching the original calf boards. First published in 1726, the second has a new title page and large additions. A title which became a standard handbook of the eighteenth century, WS 104/105
Ref:
23675
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