Shooting and Salmon Fishing: Hints and Recollections

Augustus Grimble

Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1892

About this Item

A first edition, large paper copy, of this profusely illustrated work regarding shooting and fishing. The first edition.Illustrated with eighteen photogravures. Collated, complete.Written by Augustus Grimble. Grimble was a keen hunter and fisher, writing a number of other works on the subject including 'The Deer Forests in Scotland', 'The Salmon Rivers of England' and 'Deer-Stalking'.This work offers both a biographical account of Grimble's experience with the sports, as well as an instructional guide to shooting and salmon fishing, including a detailed and illustrated guide to casting off, demonstrated further with a number of plates relating to the subject. From the library of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. William Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex. Beeleigh housed his library, one of the largest private libraries in England. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Back strip age toned. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 913F51

Bibliographic Details

Title: Shooting and Salmon Fishing: Hints and ...

Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London

Publication Date: 1892

Binding: Hardback

Illustrator: Not Stated

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First edition.

Book Type: book