My Life As an Angler
de Henderson, William
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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E-009: William Satchell & Co.. Good. 1880. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. William Satchell & Co. , Covent Gardens, 1880. Xiv, 349 pp. , including appendices. 2 Illustrated with frontispiece and woodcuts engraved By Edmund Evans (illustrator). New Edition. Bound in dark green cloth titled in gilt on spine and upper board, ornately decorated with gilt spine vignette. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (chip present to the spine, closed tears present to the edges of the boards). Previous owner's bookplate removed from the reverse of the FFEP, blindstamp present to the FFEP, bookplate present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. William Henderson's book is a richly entertaining account of fishing adventures, mostly in the North (the author was a carpet manufacturer from Durham) on such rivers as the Wear, Coquet and Tweed. Henderson knew some legendary fly-tyers of the time, including John Younger, the St Boswells shoemaker and author, James Wright of Sprouston (to whom we owe the "Greenwell's Glory" among other historic patterns) , and Percival S. Wilkinson, whose famous salmon fly was regarded for years as the essential Tweed medicine." (Flyfisher's Classic Library catalogue 2003). E-009; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Last Exit Books
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- Título
- My Life As an Angler
- Autor
- Henderson, William
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Editorial
- William Satchell & Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- E-009
- Fecha de publicación
- 1880
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