A Book on Angling

Francis Francis. A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Ever Branch with Explanatory Plates, etc. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880. Fifth edition. Octavo. xvi, 516 pages with 8 pages of ads and the publisher's 12 paged June 1881 catalog bound in the back. Frontispiece and sixteen illustrated plates (six in color with tissue guards). Bound in publisher's cloth with blind stamped rules and publisher's device on both boards, gilt lettering to spine; coated endpapers. Illustrated bookplate of Ernest Powell King of Wainford Hants, designed by E[dward] R[obert] Hughes on front pastedown. . Binding lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped, spine and front board faded in a pattern that suggests the book was the last volume between book ends; occasional spots of minor browning, tissue guards with foxing, textblock slightly over opened at signature Q. Else a very good copy. HFP-689.