A Book on Angling: Being A Complete Treatise on The Art of Angling in Every Branch, with Explanatory Plates, etc.

  • Francis, Francis
  • London: Longman's Green, and Co. 1867
  • Westwood & Satchell p.98.

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FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xi, [iii], 429, [1], [6, ads], 32 [ads] + colour frontispiece and 14 plates, of which 4 colour. Modern morocco, boards bordered with a gilt rule, spine divided by raised bands between gilt rules, 2nd and 4th compartments lettered direct in gilt, others tooled centrally with an ichthyoid design in gilt, turn-ins gilt, top edge gilt. Just a touch of scattered toning. Shaved ownership inscription of Henry Hutchinson dated 1867 to head of title-page.

Notes

The first edition of writer and angler Francis Francis's magnum opus, which was expanded for a second edition within the year and reached a 5th edition by 1876, with publishers' ads to the rear dated November 1866.

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