Edited Ephemera (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'new edition'. 12mo, 7 2/3? tall, 324 pages plus black and white illustrated plates, gilt spine titles on decoratively embossed green cloth. A good, original hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the corner edges, chipping at the spine top, slight fraying started at the spine bottom, with darkening to the spine cloth, spotting and hand soiling to the cover cloth; internal binding solid but hinges are cracked with some partial separation to the rear hinge, a previous owner's bookplate has been partially removed from the front endpaper, paper light to moderately yellowed, with soiling to the top fore-edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo, illustd,326pp, orig green blind stamped cloth, spine darkened and cloth bit aged but good and sound, front and rear paper joints cracked but binding sound, rear blank end paper bit loose, contents have some foxing , a good ref/reading volume. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo, 309 pages plus 3 plates and frontispiece, numerous vignettes and an engraved title page. Blind stamped cloth a little discoloured with age, a few neat marginal notes in a contemporary hand, new endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Reprint. This undated copy has been rebound in three quarter brown calf with raised bands to six compartments with bright gilt title to the second and authors to the fourth, there are gilt fish to the rest. There are marbled sides. Although undated the Editor's 'Advertiment' to page A2 is dated 1853 and there is a neat copperplate signature dated 1876 to the half title.This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dust wrapper is not called for. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. First published in 1653 by Richard Marriot in London. Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. It is an illustrated celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. There is a four page sketch of Walton's Life. There is a tissue guarded frontis portrait of Walton. rEF l 5.

Full Cloth. Condition: Fair. "New Edition" edited by 'Ephemera'. Original full green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Heavily soiled. with the gilt faded. Lacking the front free endpaper. Mild light foxing throughout. Overall in FAIR condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gilt titles on red cloth boards which have marks, age darkening to spine which has a 3 inch separation. internally there is a subscription library plate to front endpaper, age toning to closed edges, endpapers and slightly to page margins, else unmarked. 313 pages + 6 pages of advertisements. Illustrations in the text. Edited by 'Ephemera' of Bell's Life in London' whose advertisement is to front, together with a sketch of Walton's life. Not dated but new books from the catalogue to rear are from early 1880's. 2 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 'New Edition'. 1853. Contemporaneous grey cloth binding with embossed floral designs front and rear, gilt titles and floral decs to spine. B/w pictorial title pages and frontispiece (engraving). xiv, 326 pp. B/w illustrations from engravings throughout. Clean and bright with only light occasionel foxing to edges. No inscriptions. Attractive binding glossy and all sound, including the joints. A splendid copy in original binding. VG+.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Hardback. 1853 edition. Originally published in 1653. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Old angling bookstore sticker to inside cover. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Slight shelf wear to edges and corners of cloth. Corners bumped. Tiny nip to top edge of spine. Bottom page of title page clipped. Green cloth with gilt and silver decorations and gilt lettering. Gilt edged pages. The first edition of 'Complete Angler' appeared in 1653, exactly two hundred years ago, and though during Walton's lifetime four subsequent editions were published, with additions and improvements, original errors in the natural history of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and insects, not only remained, but were augmented. Those errors must be imputed to the general ifnorance of the time in which Walton wrote, in matters of natural history, and not to his specificallt. The most glaring and dangerous of these errors I have cleared away by means of foot-notes. If any candid read of apprehensive mind wil persue the 'Complete Angler' he must agree with me that it lacks the instructive element - it amuses far more than it teaches - it talks more of fish and of catching them than it shows by detailed practical directions how to catch them. Occasionally directions are given; but they are not always correct, and, except in a few instances, they are antiquted and not unfrequently erroneous. At least I think so; and have endeavoured to apply a remedy. Wherever I have found the piscatorial directions of Walton and Cotton right I have said so, and not interfered. Where I have found them contariwise, I have pointed it out and written new instructions, frequently at great elngth - more lengthened than the original chapters to which they stand appended. I will not encroach upon the reader's time by stating minutely all that I have done. In a word, I will at once and fearlessly predicate that I have written, by means of foot-notes and complementary essays to chapters, a complete moderm treatise on the different branchs of angling - on bottom-fishing, spinning, and trolling, on fly-fishing with the artificial fly, and on daping or dibbling with the natural one. It have written succinctly the natural history of each of our river-fish - that of the salmon rather lengthily than succinctly - I have shown their habits, pointed out their haunts, named the best baits for them, and shown how they are to be used. I have taught how the rod and line are to be handled, and how the artificial fly is to be thrown and worked in the water, as far as a long-practised pen can teach it. I have described the best sorts of angling gear; and to Cotton's instructions for making artifical flies. I have added my own, elucidated with drawings of the natural fly and of the artifical one in its finished state and in the incipient and progressive stages of its fabrications. Illustrations. 313+ pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.