Fitzgibbon Edward Ephemera (19 results)

Pictorial Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket: As Issued. First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Original green cloth,front board partialy faded, spine darkened. Rubbed at corners and moderately shaken in case.Light stain to margin of 6 leaves and removable dust marking to inner margins of some leaves.Outer front joint cracked and inner end paper hinges split but holding. Collates thus :- viii, 312pp. No ads are present in this copy. Early signature on title page. This is a copy of the illustrated Scarce 3rd edition.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dustjacket. 4th Edition. 312 pages + 32 page publisher's catalogue. Excellent B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Dark green hardback binding which is worn around edges and boards' corners, spine junctions. Page-edges browned o/w pages clean. Reading/working copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The second edition a very good copy in the publisher's cloth, a couple of notes on the front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardback. Condition: Very good. Second Edition, with in text woodcut illustrations; original green ribbed cloth binding; boards with multiple frame borders in blind with floral decorations. Label to spine with gilt lettering and blind floral decoration. Boards have some wear with sunning to the edges - small tear to bottom edge of front board. Previous owners name inscribed to title page. Tight binding, with pages crisp and bright. 31 page publisher's alphabetical catalogue. Numerous illustrations with the plate on page 328 being extra to this volume. Additional photographs are available upon request. For shipping heavier items, or delivery outside the UK, please read our shipping terms for further details. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. covers and binding loose but complete with chipped spine, cocking. sketches (illustrator).

Frontispiece and illustrations in the text. 8vo (7 x 4 5/8 inches), pages: viii:312:24 (publisher's advertisements). Original green blindstamped cloth. 1 1/4 inch split to upper joint. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper and recto of frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 4th Edition. Hardcover, dark green cloth with an embossed illustration on the front cover and bright gold spine-title, 312 pages + 32 pages of ads, illustrated with drawings, including a detailed frontis illustration of three flies with the original tissue-guard, the preface of the 3rd edition is included, this is a nicer copy than is usually found with no major flaws, the following minor flaws are present: mild inward turning to the spine-ends and tiny points of wear to the corners, a mild lean to the spine has caused no damage, the binding remains tight and clean and the contents are fine and free of foxing. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1853). (1847) 1865 4th edition. 12mo (110 x 178mm). Ppviii,312 + 32pp ads. B/w frontispiece of salmon flies, text engravings. Decoratively blind-stamped green cloth, spine titled in gilt, brown coated end-papers. Front inner professionally repaired. Cloth a little rubbed but good. Armorial bookplate and end-paper ownership signature of T. Godfrey Hatfeild of Thorp Arch Hall, York, 1866. Third edition, considerably revised. In the author's preface he states "I have, I think, improved the general style of the volume; excised repetitions, rejected incorrect instruction, unsound suggestion, opinion, and advice, and replaced them by accurate information and counsel. The list of trout-flies I have shortened and simplified, and given no fancy patterns. .The natural history of salmon I have re-written. .The list of salmon-flies for the best rivers in the British Isles I have remodelled after the best specimens in that gallery of ideal insect beauties which I painted for The Book of the Salmon." Chapters on artificial flies; their dressing and use, together with monthly lists of recommended flies for both trout and salmon; trolling tackle and techniques; bottom fishing; piscatorial physiology by Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S; and the habits of freshwater fish. Though the book includes sections on bottom fishing, the author most definitely favours the fly and includes a section on "The superiority and merits of fly-fishing." He does, however, still have time for the coarse fish except, perhaps, the carp of which he says "The yellowish olive carp stands at the head of a very numerous family, giving, in my opinion, no very honourable name to them. They are just as bad a race as the salmon tribe are excellent. .Neither I nor anyone else can tell you how to catch satisfactorily with the angle the pater familias of the carp; he is so sly, and nibbles in such a namby-pamby way, that he strips the hook of its bait mouse-like." .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The historic 1854 Second "Ephemera" Edition of the famous 1653 fishing classic, The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Very attractive hardback bound in tan leather with decorative gilt banding on boards and edges, raised banding with gilt motifs and text inset in black and red insets, mottled edges and endpapers, red ribbon bookmark. In very good condition, spine slightly faded, ends and corners lightly bumped, back board stained, very tops of first pages lightly stained, clearing completely by p100, signed owner's book plate, inscription to Thomas Child, some slight scattered foxing, otherwise very bright, tight and clean. Xivpp with Advertisement, a sketch of Walton's life, facsimile of the original title page and Epistle Dedicatory and Contents, then 309pp with a decorative frontispiece, an illustrated title-page vignette and small etched drawings throughout, plus 3 full page plates with explanatory notes. The work is a celebration of the English countryside as well as a manual on the art of fishing. Written primarily as a dialogue between an experienced fisherman or Piscator and his pupil, it covers fish behaviour, fly-making, bait preparation and even traditional fish recipes.…

xii, 363pp. + [32]pp. of ads. at rear. Illustrated. Rebacked, retaining orig. spine. Green blind decorated cloth. Rear endpapers soiled, some occasional light foxing throughout o/w contents clean and sound.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo, xvi, 242 pp, bound in marbled boards backed with crushed black morocco, raised in six bands at the spine, with gilt florets and decorative compartments. t.e.g. Illustrated with 9 plates, eight of them hand-colored, printed the Adlards. Provenance: From the library of Jane des Grange, with her engraved ex libris tipped onto ffep. First edition of a landmark work in the history of fly-fishing for salmon, known for the brilliance and clarity of the hand-colored plates depicting flies, as well as the clear prose style and depictions of salmon rivers in the UK, Scotland, and Wales. Westwood & Satchell p. 86 (Highly esteemed). Leather rubbed at hinges and extremities, lightly affecting the title and gilt at spine; cloth rubbed, with some minor swelling to the upper boards, likely from exposure to moisture, some minor foxing withing, otherwise a sound very good example, with the plates well-preserved and bright.…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1995). (1850) 1995 new edition. 8vo (165 x 242mm). Ppxxvi,242. Eight full-page colour plates, five of them of salmon flies. Full burgundy goatskin with actual salmon fly set within a bespoke mount inside the front board. De luxe edition. Fine in silk-lined box with the initials R.H.L. (previous owner Sir Richard Leigh) to the front. One of 55 copies incorporating an actual salmon fly tied by Henrik Strandgaard. One of 55 de luxe copies, each containing an actual salmon fly tied by Henrik Strandgaard. The Book of the Salmon (1850) is one of the best-known books on salmon fishing of the nineteenth century. It belongs to the exciting decade from 1842, which saw the publication of Blacker's first edition, Scrope's Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing and Jones's Guide to Norway, some of the most brilliant (and most desirable) of all fly-fishing books. 'Ephemera' was an Irishman, Edward Fitzgibbon. He was a friend of William Blacker, the celebrated tackle-dealer, and an excellent all-round angler of great experience. Unlike Blacker, Fitzgibbon could write, and he was an ambitious author. The Book of the Salmon is the first comprehensive guide to salmon fishing to be published. In addition, it contains five colour plates of flies and three plates of salmon fry, superbly engraved by the Adlards (the same men who produced the dazzling plates in Jones's Guide to Norway). Westwood and Satchell's Bibliotheca Piscatoria, (1883) comments, "the chapters on fly-making are unusually clear and comprehensible." The quality and rarity of Ephemera's book have made it a most sought after collector's piece which fetches (when it occasionally appears) a substantial price. It is an essential volume for anyone interested in the history of the salmon fly. .…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1995). (1850) 1995 new edition. 8vo (165 x 242mm). Ppxxvi,242. Eight full-page colour plates, five of them of salmon flies. Full burgundy goatskin with actual salmon fly set within a bespoke mount inside the front board. De luxe edition. Fine in silk-lined box. One of 55 copies incorporating an actual salmon fly tied by Henrik Strandgaard. One of 55 de luxe copies, each containing an actual salmon fly tied by Henrik Strandgaard. The Book of the Salmon (1850) is one of the best-known books on salmon fishing of the nineteenth century. It belongs to the exciting decade from 1842, which saw the publication of Blacker's first edition, Scrope's Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing and Jones's Guide to Norway, some of the most brilliant (and most desirable) of all fly-fishing books. 'Ephemera' was an Irishman, Edward Fitzgibbon. He was a friend of William Blacker, the celebrated tackle-dealer, and an excellent all-round angler of great experience. Unlike Blacker, Fitzgibbon could write, and he was an ambitious author. The Book of the Salmon is the first comprehensive guide to salmon fishing to be published. In addition, it contains five colour plates of flies and three plates of salmon fry, superbly engraved by the Adlards (the same men who produced the dazzling plates in Jones's Guide to Norway). Westwood and Satchell's Bibliotheca Piscatoria, (1883) comments, "the chapters on fly-making are unusually clear and comprehensible." The quality and rarity of Ephemera's book have made it a most sought after collector's piece which fetches (when it occasionally appears) a substantial price. It is an essential volume for anyone interested in the history of the salmon fly. .…

Condition: Very good. First Edition. 12mo (17 cm), pp. xvi, 242, 2 (ads), 32 (publisher's catalog). Original brown cloth, gilt titling, with blind-stamped decorations. Publisher's adverts on front and rear pastedowns, binders ticket on rear pastedown. Colorful frontispiece of three salmon flies (nine hand-colored plates total, featuring flies, salmon, and hooks). Moderate wear to extremities, hinges look to have been reinforced in the distant past, a few pages with small closed tears. Penciled notations on verso of free front endpaper.Westwood & Satchell call it (along with Fitzgibbon's other work) "highly esteemed" (p. 86).…

Longman, Brown. 1850. 12mo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine; pp. xvi + 242 + 2 [ads.] + 24 [publisher's catalogue], 9 plates (8 hand coloured);previous owner's signature to flyleaf, pp. xi-xii roughly opened with loss to edge, occasional light spotting, very good.First edition. Fitzgibbon was a friend of his fellow Irishman the tackle maker William Blacker, and was an ambitious angling writer. This was the first comprehensive guide to the salmon to be written and is rightly prized for the quality of the plates, printed by the Adlards, as well as for the clear, authoritative text.Westwood & Satchell p. 86. …