SHIPLEY, William. A Treatise on the Art of Fly-Fishing, Trolling, etc., as Practiced on the Dove, and on the Principal Streams of the Midland Counties; applicable to every Trout and Grayling River in the Empire. Edited by Edward FitzGibbon. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1838.
12mo. Original redcloth with inner marble boards, stamped in blind on the sides, the spine with gilt title and a vignette of fishing tackle; pp. xxxv + 264; wood-engraved frontispiece of a man fly-fishing and a woman with a net; engraving of a church on tail piece; foxing on first page and around frontispiece though it does not interrupt design; consistent press to middle of text body; otherwise a very good copy.
First Edition
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