Author:
CRAWHALL Joseph
Title:
The Compleatest Angling Booke That Ever Was Writ
Price:
£400.00
Year:
1881
Edition:
2nd Edn,
Publisher:
Andre Reid for ye Author
City of Publication:
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Summary:
ccxxiii (5) pages, top edge gilt 4to. Limited to one hundred copies, the first edition of 1864 was limited to 40 copies. Illustrated, with woodcuts and wood engraved vignettes and illustrations by the author and others, some hand coloured. Original. Fish bookplate of Hugh Tempest Sheringham to the front paste down, some spotting to the first few pages. Recent ? green calf matching cloth sides gilt ruled raised bands to the spine. With one or two exceptions the volume contains all the old plates and nearly as many new ones all displaying the humorous feeling and artistic skill which give Mr Crawhalls work a "place apart" among angling books. A very good copy, Westwood Satchell 70.
Ref:
19200
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