|
|
 |
|
|
|
Item Details
|
|
 |
 |
| Heading: |
|
| Author: |
Forester, Frank [pseud. of Henry William Herbert] |
| Title: |
Fishing With Hook and Line: A Manual for Amateur Anglers. Containing also Descriptions of Popular Fishes and Their Habits, Preparation of Baits, &c. &c. |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Thomas O'Kane |
| Date: |
N.d. [after 1858] |
| Item # : |
110541 |
|
|
| Sale Number |
|
235 |
| Lot Number |
|
341 |
| Sale Name |
|
|
| The Angling Library of Jeffrey Norton |
| Sale Date |
|
01/24/2002 |
| Price realized |
|
$ 149 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
|
This item was sold in a live auction.
If another copy or a similar item comes
up for auction, we can let you know.
Pressing the button below will add
the title to your 'want list', and if
the item comes up for auction again,
we will notify you via email.
|
|
|
| Description: |
| 64 pp. With 8 wood-engravings of fish on 7 plates. 6¾x4½, original pictorial wrappers bound in ¾ gilt-ruled red morocco & marbled boards, raised spine bands, marbled endpapers. |
| Unassuming pamphlet which "seems to gave been endlessly reprinted for souvenirs, premiums, etc., and as none were dated or carry copyright after the first edition, there is no way of determining the order of appearance." The present issue, handsomely bound, includes the original wrappers which bear the imprint of C.J. Clover, Brooklyn. Van Winkle pp. 68-70, variant f. With the bookplate of John Gerard Heckscher on the front flyleaf, that of John Ostrom Enders on the front pastedown. |
| Condition: |
| Small ink blot to original front wrapper, rear wrapper with light stain and tiny hole; contents a little darkened, near fine. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
previous lot next lot
|
|
|
|
