A Fishery Imbroglio: A Sketch Treating of a Question In The Domain of Inter-Sexual Politics

Charles William Woolsey

Published by The Art Age Press, 1886

About this Item

63, [1] pp. With three illustrations. Hardcover in cream cloth, side sewn, with a angling fly embedded in front cover (hackles worn away), back cover with tangle of hooks in gilt, minor foxing. Sondley Reference Library bookplate on front pastedown and a few other Ex-Lib. markings. FIRST EDITION. Fishing and the Battle of the Sexes. Whimsical look at Boston courtship in angling metaphors, ranging from the Nova Scotia fisheries to Izaac Walton's gentle art, being the adventures of Mrs. Hackle Brown, widow, as she goes fishing along "the sacred limits of these precincts called the 'Diamond rock,' for here the ladies do all the wooing. Many a dainty rod lands many a foolish fish -- flapping its ineffectual gills, and gasping to its fishy death in the dank weeds at the feet of Izaak's fair disciples." Bruns W170 ("Rare"). Seller Inventory # 100525

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Fishery Imbroglio: A Sketch Treating of a ...

Publisher: The Art Age Press

Publication Date: 1886

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition