Published by L Upcott Gill,, 1904
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
8vo., with frontispiece and very numerous woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, hinges tender (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. With advertisement at front and 20pp catalogue at rear. 'A very complete book on late-nineteenth century angling methods (Hampton)'. Contains sections on Coarse Fish, Pike, Game Fish and Salt Water. Sound copy of a substantially enlarged nineteenth-century angling classic first published in 1888. Hampton, p.74.
Published by L. Upcott Gill,, 1887
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front endpapers, free endpapers lightly browned; maroon pebble-grain cloth, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, a near fine copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Hampton records only the second edition of 1900 et seq. See Hampton, p.77.