Col Robert Venables (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile. pp61 reproduction in facsimile of the 1662 edition with an introductory biographical sketch of the author.

Facsimile reprint , with an introductory biographical sketch of Col. Robert Venables by C.G.A. Parker. Portrait frontispiece. 62pp. Green cloth with VG dj. Near Fine.

1st thus Edn.. XIX 111 pages, spotting to FEP, original 1/4 vellum over paper covered boards, vg in dj. No 94 of a limited edition of 650 copies. A reprint of these 2 early books on angling with a preface by Horace Hutchinson.

1st thus Edn. XIX 111 pages, spotting to FEP, original 1/4 vellum over paper covered boards, vg in worn dj, dj has sections missing but presentable. No 265 of a limited edition of 650 copies. A reprint of these 2 early books on angling with a preface by Horace Hutchinson.

reprint of the 1662 Edn.. XIII + introduction IV + 61 pages, sml 8vo., the first section is a memoir of Robert Venables, followed by The Experienced Angler or Angling Improved, illus of fish on India paper throughout the text, bound in contemporary 1/2 leather 7 1/2" x 5", top edge gilt, pages uncut, large paper edition.

xxiii, iv, 61 pp., 18 small engravings (17 of fish) on India paper within the text. 1st Gosden ed.,plates are mounted India proofs. Contemporary full polished calf with green morocco spine label. Rubbed at edges. First Gosden edition. Westwood &Satchell p.214.