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The British Angler: or, A Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling.
de WILLIAMSON, John
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WILLIAMSON, John. The British Angler: or, A Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling...Together with Supplemental Discourses...Also, Excellent Reciepts for Dressing of Fish...Illustrated with Copper-Plates Curiously Engraved. The Whole compiled from approved Authors, and above Thirty Years Experience. By...who has added a Versification of the principle Heads...12mo, contemporary speckled calf (slight cracking at joints; one corner rubbed), red morocco lettering piece, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, engraved frontispiece by George Bickham Jr., pp. viii, 318, [10] Index + 3 fine folding plates engraved by Benjamin Cole. London: J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge, 1740.
First Edition. An unusually nice copy of a book most often found either rebound, repaired or worn. "One of the best of the manuals, but without any special value beyond. There is a voluminous chapter on pastes, which is a general raking together of all antecedent recipes of the kind, medieval and modern."-Westwood & Satchell, p. 241. With cipher and coronet bookplate of Panshanger (seat of Earl Cowper); and Lamb family lion and coronet bookplate of the Library, Brocket Hall. Heckscher 2273.Reseñas
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- Título
- The British Angler: or, A Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling.
- Autor
- WILLIAMSON, John
- Ilustrador
- George Bickham, Jr
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First
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- Editorial
- J. Hodges
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1740's
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- Angling
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- 12mo
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