Author:
MACKINTOSH Alexander
Title:
The Modern Fisher or The Driffield Angler In Two Parts Containing Descriptions Of The Different Kinds Of Fresh Water Fish and the Best Methods of Taking Them in Rivers, Lakes and Fish Ponds With Full Directions Of Many Artificial Flies For Every Month In The Season To Which Is Added Instructions For Shooting, With Rules For The Breeding, Breaking, and Management of Pointers and Spaniels and the Choice of Guns for Game and Wildfowl With a Description of the Forest of Blair in Perthshire belonging to his Grace the Duke of Athol and the Manner of Killing the Deer, also a Short Treatise On Coursing and The Training Of Greyhounds
Price:
£220.00
Year:
1806
Edition:
2st edn
Publisher:
Printed by the author and sold by Henry Moziley
City of Publication:
Gainsborough
Summary:
xi 346 pages, , pages uncut engraved frontis of an angler. Bound in recent old style half dark brown calf red title label, blind stamp tooling to spine compartments. The first part covers species of fish, making fishponds, angling flies, fly fishing and Laws as to angling. The second part covers all aspects of shooting including the choice of fowling pieces, instructions for shooting well, dog training etc. Chute 415, Westwood Satchell 138.
Ref:
23886
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