Englefield Red Quill (9 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt, cloth lightly shelf marked, chipped and rubbed at the head of the spine, the binding remains tight. Endpapers browned and with a dated signature of a previous owner on the front free endpaper and that of another excised, Frontis portrait, pictorial advertisements, xix + 211pp.…

London. Horace Cox. 1908. First Edition. 8vo. (9 x 6). 211 pp. plus ads, many illustrated. Photo frontispiece of the author. The text describes Outfit's - Lines and Casts - A Dry-Fly Outfit - Trout Flies - Grayling Flies - Advice to a Beginner - Notes and Sport of a Dry-Fly Purist, etc. Bound in the original green cloth with gilt titles on the front cover and spine, beveled boards. Front hinge strengthened, light scattered foxing to preliminaries. Very good.…

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1908). 1908 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 217mm). Ppxix,211 + vii ads. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. Dark green cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt. End-papers browned as usual, o/w a very good copy. Split into two parts - the first being practical advice on dry-fly fishing for the beginner, the second half consisting of reminiscences of dry-fly days, mostly on the chalkstreams, around the turn of the century. Contents include:- Part One - A dry-fly purist's advice to a beginner: A first day's sport; Concerning his outfit; How to carry a landing net; Trout lines and casts; On the losing of trout; The further losing of trout; A dry-fly outfit (continued); New form of keep net; Outfit (continued); A light dry-fly equipment; Trout flies; Grayling flies; In praise of solitude; A down-stream wind; The advice to a beginner, continued and ended. Part Two - Notes and sport of a dry-fly purist: A reminiscence of Derbyshire; A dry-fly tour in the north; Grayling sport on the Itchen; Last hours with the grayling; The trout season, 1905; The grayling season, 1905; An Itchen basket; The trout season, 1906; A September brace; A new grayling fishery; The grayling season, 1906; At the end of the old year; The opening day of the trout season, 1907; April, 1907, on the Itchen; Some aspects of trout fishing; A first visit to Ireland. . …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 138 pages : illustrations, 1 table. Subjects; England Thames River. Fishing. Pe?che sportive Angleterre Tamise. 1 Kg.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.