EVANS, W. The Art of Angling; or Complete Fly-fisher: describing the different kinds of fish, their haunts, places of feeding… Uxbridge: William Lake [1820].
12mo. Twentieth century half brown morocco, marbled boards, gilt rules to sides, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; pp. xii + 95, frontispiece; bound with original wrapper laid in, browning to frontispiece and title page, corners of esp. first few leaves worn, handsomely bound, very good.
New edition, revised. This Uxbridge issue, without date, is the same as the 1820 issue from London with a different title page. Thacher does not record any examples of the first edition. This concise but informative work is hard to find.
SKU: 2104753
EVANS, W. The Art of Angling; or Complete Fly-fisher: describing the different kinds of fish, their haunts, places of feeding… Uxbridge: William Lake [1820].
12mo. Twentieth century half brown morocco, marbled boards, gilt rules to sides, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; pp. xii + 95, frontispiece; bound with original wrapper laid in, browning to frontispiece and title page, corners of esp. first few leaves worn, handsomely bound, very good.
New edition, revised. This Uxbridge issue, without date, is the same as the 1820 issue from London with a different title page. Thacher does not record any examples of the first edition. This concise but informative work is hard to find.
SKU: 2104753
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