Title: A Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle Author: Berners, Dame Juliana Place: [Chelsea] Publisher: [Ashendene Press] Date: [1903] Description: 48 pp. Full-page illustration from an old woodcut, plus a few cuts in the text. 7¾x5¼, original vellum, spine lettered in gilt. One of 150 copies printed on paper. Lovely printing of the first book on angling to be published in English. Wynkyn de Worde printed the original edition in 1496, from which the woodcuts in the present fine printing are taken. Ashendene Bibliography 16. Provenance: The Estelle Doheny copy, with her leather bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 218903
Title: A Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle Author: Berners, Dame Juliana Place: [Chelsea] Publisher: [Ashendene Press] Date: [1903] Description: 48 pp. Full-page illustration from an old woodcut, plus a few cuts in the text. 7¾x5¼, original vellum, spine lettered in gilt. One of 150 copies printed on paper. Lovely printing of the first book on angling to be published in English. Wynkyn de Worde printed the original edition in 1496, from which the woodcuts in the present fine printing are taken. Ashendene Bibliography 16. Provenance: The Estelle Doheny copy, with her leather bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 218903
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