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New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

1845. Hardcover, with in-blind designs on covers, gilt lettering and decorative illustration on spine. [NOT A FACSIMILE OR RECENT REPRINT-THIS IS THE 1845 EDITION. ] Features plates, frontispiece, and decorative title page. Untrimmed pages (deckled to give the book a sophisticated look). Heavy paper stock pages feature beautiful borders of decorative designs/illustrations. Condition: Binding reflects aging, including age toning, soiling, scattered discoloration spots, wear to corners (some showing a tad), periodic rippling of cloth on top cover, light fraying/short tears to top/foot of spine, edge wear, darkening/tanning of spine. Joints and hinges are tight. Two gift inscriptions, one dated 1856 another 1908 (the latter is a warm, touching inscription). Several signatures holding on with partial sewing. The expected age toning, light staining/soiling, foxing, and some fading and creases for a book over 178 years old. Overall Good. Text is clear and readable. Illustrations are vivid and in Very Good condition. Free of the smoke smell of a cigarette or cigar smoker. Truly a collectible, antiquarian book covering a popular topic, angling/fishing, complemented by beautiful page borders and illustrations. Note: We are a well-established, well-respected, ethical book dealer in business since 1991. We describe the condition of our books thoroughly and honestly, so you'll know exactly what you will be receiving when you order. We ship promptly.

Acceptable condition. Backstrip nearly detached. Front hinge cracked. Bookplate inside. Writing inside. In polypropylene bag. (fishing, hunting, angling)

Acceptable condition. Backstrip nearly detached. Front hinge cracked. Bookplate inside. Writing inside. In polypropylene bag. (fishing, hunting, angling)

With illustr. by Beckwith & Topham. With numerous illustr. on plates (engravings), 311 p. Decorative edition. Cover rubbed, preliminary page and foretitle sligthly loosened (name on it), several pages slightly spotted, otherwise fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 8°, original decorative cloth-binding.

Thick8vo. 21.2x 16.5cm, large paper edition, 311p., engraved half title, 30 engraved plates tipped on heavy stock paper with tissue guards, each leave with decorated text margins, original green cloth, gilt titles & decoration, beveled boards, floral decorated endpapers, t.e.g., wear on the edges, inner hinges paper tape guarded, occasional light foxing, a good to very good copy (sp). ~ Westwood & Satchell p93. A revised copy of a classic early nineteenth century literary fishing classic first published in 1835 by "P. Fisher, Esq., assisted by several eminent piscatory characters." Paul Fisher was the pseudonym of writer, William Andrew Catto (1799 1864). With lovely steel engravings by Beckwith and Topham. An attractive book with gilt angling motif on front.

Octavo. First edition, second impression with Tilt, not Bohn as publisher. x, 192 p. : 31 pl., vignettes. Turn of the century rebind in 3/4 brown leather. Marbled boards and endpages. Gilt spine. 5 raised bands. TEG. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Owners name in pencil to first blank near spine. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

192 pages, plus plates. Rebound by Whitman Bennett of New York in full Moroccan leather with raised spine bands creating six compartments. Gilt ruling and lettering, as well as five trout (? ) vignettes in spine compartments. All edges are gilded. The binder has beautifully used the original covers with elaborate gilt designs, as the front paste downs. There is a little separation of the front free end page from the following fly leaf. Occasional light foxing and offsetting. Volume remains tight and very attractive.

A beautifully bound edition of this charmingly illustrated collection of stories, poetry, and practical information for the nineteenth-century angler. With the publisher's original cloth bound in to the start of the work.G. Christopher Davies edits P. Fisher's collection of stories, poems, instructional information and anecdotes for the keen nineteenth century angler. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page, and with a further thirty one steel engraved plates, by Beckwith and Topham. Collated, complete. Rebound in half morocco, with gilt detailing to back strip, marbled paper covered boards, and endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Publisher's original cloth bound in to the start of the work. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters, otherwise clean and bright. Near Fine.

Octavo. 6.75"x4.5". 192pp. Collated and complete. A presumed special presentation binding of this illustrative angling classic. "The work is clever and caustic, and contains a critique of several of the angling books of the day" (Westwood & Satchell, 93). Extremely scarce in original trade binding. Thacher, 107; Westwood & Satchell, 93.