The Anglers Vade Mecum: Or A Compendious Yet Full Discourse On Angling

180 numbered to 166 pages, table + appendix, bottom margin corner of title page and 1st page some loss with neat repair, loss to date on title and 1 word on verso of 1st page. 10 pages have contemporary notes in a neat hand, some age browning, last 4 pages old water stain to upper margin, overall a vg copy recently bound in full old style specked calf. "Cheatham's prefaces are in diogenes vein, curt and caustic, he escapes from the category of manual makers., and takes rank as one of the original writers on the sport. he is indebted to his forerunners but acknowledges it; he improves on their systems and calls attention to the fact. He is never servile nor plagiaristic always honest, sometimes a little surly" Westwood and Satchell 60.