Author:
BOWLKER Charles
Title:
The Art Of Angling And Compleat Fly Fishing, Describing The Different Kinds Of Fish, Their Haunts, Places of Feeding and Retirement With an Account of the Generation of Fishes and Observations on the Breeding of Carp, Together With Directions How to Regulate Pools or Ponds Also the Various Kinds of Baits and the Great Diversity of Flies That Nature Produces, To Which Are Added Directions For Making Artificial Flies, Illustrated With Many Improvements in the Art of Angling
Price:
£250.00
Year:
1786
Edition:
4th Edn,
Publisher:
M Swinney
City of Publication:
Birmingham
Summary:
XII 120 pages, engraved frontis, engraved advert leaf pasted to front paste down for John Higginbotham fishing rod maker, armorial bookplate to front blank, ownership signature for Algernon Herbert to top margin of title page, lacks rear end paper bound in contemporary full calf, gilt fish motifs to spine, tail of spine chipped, cracking to spine hinges but a tight copy.
Ref:
7765