Published by Longman Brown Green, 1853
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
US$ 68.22
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFrontispiece and illustrations in the text. 8vo (7 x 4 5/8 inches), pages: viii:312:24 (publisher's advertisements). Original green blindstamped cloth. 1 1/4 inch split to upper joint. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper and recto of frontispiece.
Published by Longman Brown Green and Longmans,, 1847
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 357.48
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSm. 8vo., First Edition, with woodcut illustrations in the text; original green ribbed cloth, boards with multiple frame borders in blind, gilt back, uncut, cream endpapers, a remarkably well-reserved bright, crisp copy. With personal armorial bookplate on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Westley & Clark on rear paste-down. CRISP, ELEGANT COPY OF AN ANGLING CLASSIC IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. 'Highly esteemed. The chapters on fly-fishing are unusually clear and comprehensible' (Westwood & Satchell). Westwood & Satchell, pp. 85-6.