Title: The Art of Angling; and Compleat Fly-Fishing. Describing the Different Kinds of Fish, Their Haunts, Places of Feeding, and Retirement; With an Account of the Generation of Fishes, and Observation on the Breeding of Carp. Together with Directions How To Regulate of Pools or Ponds. Also the Various Kinds of Baits, and the great diversity of Flies that Nature Produces. To which are added, Directions for Making Artificial Flies. Illustrated with many new Improvements in the Art of Angling... Author: Bowlker, Charles Place: Birmingham Publisher: Swinney & Evetts Date: [1785?] Description: viii, 116 pp. Engraved frontispiece. (12mo) 16.5x10 cm (6½x4") period full calf re-backed with raised spine bands, gilt rule, spine label with gilt lettering. Third Edition. Based on 'The Art of Angling Improved' by the author's father Richard Bowlker. A reissue of the sheets of the 1774 Baskerville edition, with title page and preface reset. The well-engraved frontispiece pictures an angler standing underneath a tree on the bank, pulling a small fish from a stream, another fisherman in the distance. Westwood & Satchell pp.39-40. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear and rubbing to binding, some browning to endpaper edges, endpapers with period notes and drawings in pen, a solid copy; very good. Item number: 274893
Title: The Art of Angling; and Compleat Fly-Fishing. Describing the Different Kinds of Fish, Their Haunts, Places of Feeding, and Retirement; With an Account of the Generation of Fishes, and Observation on the Breeding of Carp. Together with Directions How To Regulate of Pools or Ponds. Also the Various Kinds of Baits, and the great diversity of Flies that Nature Produces. To which are added, Directions for Making Artificial Flies. Illustrated with many new Improvements in the Art of Angling... Author: Bowlker, Charles Place: Birmingham Publisher: Swinney & Evetts Date: [1785?] Description: viii, 116 pp. Engraved frontispiece. (12mo) 16.5x10 cm (6½x4") period full calf re-backed with raised spine bands, gilt rule, spine label with gilt lettering. Third Edition. Based on 'The Art of Angling Improved' by the author's father Richard Bowlker. A reissue of the sheets of the 1774 Baskerville edition, with title page and preface reset. The well-engraved frontispiece pictures an angler standing underneath a tree on the bank, pulling a small fish from a stream, another fisherman in the distance. Westwood & Satchell pp.39-40. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear and rubbing to binding, some browning to endpaper edges, endpapers with period notes and drawings in pen, a solid copy; very good. Item number: 274893
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