Author:
SALTER T.F.
Title:
The Angler's Guide, Or Complete London Angler, Containing The Whole Art Of Angling As Practiced In the Rivers Thames And Lea, And Other Waters Twenty Miles Round London, Founded On Actual Experience With the Art Of Trolling For Jack Or Pike
Price:
£420.00
Year:
1814
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
For the author T Tegg
City of Publication:
Cheapside
Summary:
xvi -152 pages, frontis of hooks baited for trolling, two other full-page plates + text illustrations from woodcuts, bookplate to front paste down. Recased in the original 1/2 tan calf later red title label, dust soiling to the marbled paper covered boards, with some rubbing to corners. Salter who gives his address as Rochester Terrace, Stoke Newington. Salter notes on the title page "I write from practice not from books arrange". And the preface" I have employed some of my leisure time in writing this Work as a direction or guide to the young and inexperienced angler, the information it contains such has been acquired by practice and experience in the art during the last forty years". A much-reprinted work. The first edition is particularly scarce. W.S. 186.
Ref:
16455
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