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

MACKINTOSH Alexander

Published by Printed for the Author and sold by H. Mozley, Gainsborough,, 1806

About this Item

xi 346 pages, engraved frontis, pages uncut 1 page carelessly opened loss to corner margin and one word, ownership name to upper blank on the title page. To rear inner blank a contemporary pencil sketch of a sailing ship o/w a vg copy bound in recent 1/2 calf with marbled sides, 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.

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• Title: 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 ...
• Publisher: Printed for the Author and sold by H. Mozley, Gainsborough,
• Publication Date: 1806
• Edition: 1st Edn,.