THE ANGLER AND THE LOOP-ROD. By David Webster.
Published by William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh. 1885
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United KingdomCoch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1885). 1885 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 196mm). Ppxiv,340 + 2 + 24pp ads. Frontispiece portrait, 3 colour plates of flies, plain plates, ills. Green pictorial cloth, gilt titled on spine, black image of the angler and his loop-rod on front cover. Brown end-papers. Slightly stained and bumped, inner hinge slightly tender, edges browned, name to end-paper. Still a very good copy. Based on forty years' experience fishing for trout on the rivers Tweed and Clyde and their tributaries. David Webster fished "the loop rod", a 13 feet6 inches rod without a reel, but with a small loop at the end. To this was attached an 18-20 foot tapered horse-hair casting line and a 16-17 foot tapered "gut-line" or leader. He fished nine flies on a cast, on 2 inch detachable droppers; very sparse spider-patterns which he generally cast upstream. He also discusses other methods of fishing and includes chapters on grayling, pike and salmon. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, 2 colour plates of salmon flies, 1 colour plate of trout flies, b&w plates of minnow-baits, diagrams of "angles at which to cast", and a b&w map. .…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE ANGLER AND THE LOOP-ROD. By David Webster.
- Author
- Webster (David).
- Publisher
- William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh. 1885
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd
MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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PAUL MORGAN IS A LEADING DEALER in scarce, out-of-print & new books on fishing and field sports. Paul has developed this business over more than forty years. His business, Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., carries the world's largest range of books on fishing and field sports, sporting guns and dogs, deer, big game hunting & falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books is also a noted publisher of fine sporting works, as well as being the custodian of the famous Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint. Under Paul's editorial direction, the list of titles available under both his Coch-y- Bonddu Books imprint and the Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint grows by the month. Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., incorporated in the United Kingdom, Company No. 04636991. Registered address: 15 Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8AG. Business and correspondence Address: 13 Heol Pentrerhedyn, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8DG.…
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