THE FISHERMAN OR THE ART OF ANGLING MADE EASY Containing the MOST APPROVED METHODS in use for FISHING or ANGLING for Pike, Trout, Salmon, Grailing, Carp, Tench, Bream, Barbel, Perch, Pope, Roach, Dace, Gudgeon, Smelt, Eel, Flounder, Mullet, Loach,

TITLE CONTINUED: Minnow etc. Together with Their Seasons of Spawning, Hours of Biting and whatever else is necessary to be known by an expert Angler, also Directions in the Choice, Management and Application of the TACKLE BAITS, in the different seasons of the year and for all the various and peculiar Modes of Angling. Likewise, Remarks on the Utility of FISH PONDS; With their most profitable Formation and Disposition precisely and carefully pointed out. To which are Prefixed, an ACCOUNT of several curious METHODS of FISHING practised in EUROPE and elsewhere, and a description of all the principal RIVERS, LAKES in England, their Rise, Confluences and particular Kinds of FISH produced in them, in order to direct the ANGLER with the geater Certainty in his Sport. SECOND EDITION circa 1815. 8vo, approximately 205 x 130 mm, 8 x 5 inches. Pages: title page with advert on verso, iv, 1-148, rebound in quarter crushed dark blue morocco, 2 gilt lettered green labels to spine, gilt rules between raised bands, vertical gilt rule to marbled boards, new cream endpapers, top edge maroon. Small ink splash to 1 page affecting 4 lines and obscuring 4 words, small ink spot to 1 margin, 3 outer margins very slightly ragged, otherwise a very good clean crisp copy. See: Westwood and Satchell, Bibliotheca Piscatoria, A Catalogue of Books on Angling, The Fisheries and Fish Culture, page 58; The Library of the Late John Gerard Heckcher of New York, page 58, No. 432. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…