The Art of Angling. Now Improved with Additions and Formed into a Dictionary In Two Parts. Part 1. Containing An Account of Fish and Fish Ponds : A New Art of Fly- Making : The New Laws that concern Angling; The Secret Ways Of Catching Fish By Ointments, Pastes, and other Arts. . Part ii : Of The Great Whale and Whale- Fishery, the devouring shark; the amphibious turtle: the luscious turbot and sole; with flying fish, sea-devil, and other extraordinary productions of the sea. . Illustrated with one hundred and thirty-five cuts, exactly describing the different kinds of fish that are found in the fresh or salt waters. The whole forming a Sportsman's magazine; and comprizing all that is curious and valuable in the Art of Angling
Author:
BROOKES R.
Year:
1766
Edition:
3rd Edn,
Publisher:
T Lowndes
Summary:
viii 293 (11) pages of publisher's adverts. engraved frontis of 2 anglers landing a fish with a tavern in the background+ 135 woodcut exactly describing the different kinds of fish that are found in the fresh or salt water, Bound in a later full tan calf. Dr Brookes was Rector of Ashney in Northants. The 1766 3rd edition is said to have been revised by Mosses Browne. W/S 42/43
Ref:
23877
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