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| Author: |
Best, Thomas |
| Title: |
A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling, Confirmed by Actual Experience, and Minute Observations, With the proper Methods for Breeding and Feeding Fish, and of making Fish-ponds, Stews, &c.... To which is added The Complete Fly-Fisher; the Game-Laws Relative to Angling: and Prognostics of the Weather, independent of the Barometer |
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London |
| Publisher: |
C. Stalker |
| Date: |
[c.1789] |
| Item # : |
110850 |
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| Sale Number |
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235 |
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91 |
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| The Angling Library of Jeffrey Norton |
| Sale Date |
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01/24/2002 |
| Price realized |
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$ 258 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| [12], 169, [1] pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece. (12mo) 6½x4, modern half calf & cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Second Edition. |
| First published in 1787, this popular work went through twelve editions over the succeeding 45 years. Best was Keeper of His Majesty's Drawing-room in the Tower of London. The frontispiece shows a man and woman seated on a stream bank, the man with a fishing pole in his hand, while another angler stands on the opposite bank beyond them; there are flies below the image. Westwood & Satchell p.31. |
| Condition: |
| A little aging to the contents, light offset to the title, else near fine. |
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