The Angler's Souvenir. P Fisher, Esq., assisted by several eminent Piscatory Characters. With Illustrations by Beckwith & Topham. CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL CLOTH
The Angler's Souvenir. P Fisher, Esq., assisted by several eminent Piscatory Characters. With Illustrations by Beckwith & Topham. CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL CLOTH
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Detalles
- Año de publicación
- 1835
- Autor
- Fisher P.
- Editores
- Charles Tilt
- Materia
- angling, sporting, sports, pastimes, fishing, fly-fishing, p. fisher, w.a. chatto, sports, pastimes, angling, the, angler's, souvenir
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Descripción
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece and title, 31 engraved plates, text framed within a series of repeating woodcut borders, frontispiece and title moderately spotted, some mild age-staining (mainly marginal) to a few leaves of text; original ribbed green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, back in pictorial gilt extra, very neatly rebacked, old backstrip laid down, gilt top, yellow endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. A classic of the genre. Chatto also authored 'Scenes and Recollections of Fly-Fishing in Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland' and contributed to the Newcastle 'Garlands'. 'The work is clever and caustic, and contains a critique of several of the angling books of the day' (Westwood & Satchell). SCARCE. Westwood & Satchell, p.93.
