Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland, to which is added The Contemplative and Practical Angler. Writ in the year 1658.

Name: Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland, to which is added The Contemplative and Practical Angler. Writ in the year 1658.
Author: Franck, Richard, Philanthropus

Franck, Richard, Philanthropus

Published by Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh, 1821

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A very good copy in original embossed patterned full leather binding with gilt rim and banded gilt motifs on spine. Marbled endpapers and fore edges. No marks, clean and tight but spine creased and worn top and bottom and corners bumped and worn. Remains a beautiful book. No marks.Preface by Walter Scott and said to be limited to an edition of 250. Originally written in 1658 and first published in 1694, Franck's work is of major importance in containing the first account of salmon fishing in Scotland. The original edition of 1694 is of the utmost rarity. This edition, itself scarce, has a preface and notes anonymously contributed by Sir Walter Scott. Also notable is Franck's attack on his contemporary Izaak Walton, in which "The Compleat Angler" is dismissed as an "indigested octavo". Posterity has found for Walton, but, as Scott remarks, in so far as fly-fishing is concerned, Franck is "much superior".

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Title: Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland, to which is added The Contemplative and Practical Angler. Writ in the year 1658.
Author: Franck, Richard, Philanthropus
Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh
Publication year: 1821
Condition: Very Good
Dust jacket: No Jacket
Binding: Full-Leather
Edition: A New Edition with Preface and Notes
Seller catalogs: Biography, Books & Book Collecting, General, Scottish Topography & Local History

Creaking Shelves Books

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"Creaking Shelves Books" has been selling (and buying) books on line since 1999. Based now in Spean Bridge, ten miles from in Fort William beneath Ben Nevis. I have a varied stock with a particular emphasis in Scottish History and topography, mountaineering, geology, natural history and ephemera. Unusual items and small rarities are a speciality!

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