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London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. First edition. A most attractively produced and charming account of wild life and sport - mainly in the woods, streams and chalk downs of north-west Hampshire. With two coloured plates by Archibald Thorburn, illustrations from photographs, etc.
Medium 8vo. xii,274pp. Eight plates. Four photogravures. Two colour plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt; some slight spotting, mainly of edges; endpapers a little tanned; neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, but a very good, bright and sound copy in the original dust-jacket - just lightly worn and a little tanned.

£100

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London : Adam & Charles Black, (1979). Fourth edition.
Royal 8vo. (xii),(284)pp. Colour plates. Illustrations. Very good in lightly sunned and price-clipped dust-jacket.

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London : Pelham Books, (1967). First edition. Both a history of the evolution of the English trout fly over some five centuries and a comprehensive selection of original lists of trout-fly patterns from early times to the present. With a bibliography, etc.
Demy 8vo. 392pp. Plates, some coloured. Original cloth; very mild spotting of edges; just a hint of discolouration to outer edge of frontispiece, but a very good copy in a very lightly used dust-jacket.

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London : Seeley, Service & Co., 1930. First edition. A thorough guide to the subject, with much on roach and pike, but also chapters on dace; perch; rudd; tench; bream; gudgeon, bleak and pope; carp; barbel; chub; eel; dry-fly fishing; knots and splices, etc. In the excellent "Lonsdale Library" series.
Demy 8vo. 352pp. Numerous plates and illustrations. Bound in an attractive later half morocco; some spotting of prelims, a few slight marks, but a very good and sound copy.

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London : Seeley, Service & Co., 1929. First edition. An excellent guide to all aspects of the subject, from its literature, to tackle, casting, entomology, trout-flies, fly-dressing, etc., with additional chapters on trout scales by G. Herbert Nall, and on the legal aspect of fishing by Alban Bacon, etc. In the much-admired "Lonsdale Library" series.
Demy 8vo. 448pp. Numerous plates and illustrations. Bound in an attractive later half morocco; a few minor marks and spots, but a very good copy.

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London : Adam & Charles Black, (1977). First edition. A thorough examination of the topic, with chapters on tools, vices, hooks, silks, tinsels, hackles, tubes, dyeing, varnishes, etc., with additional lists of material for salmon and trout flies.
Crown 4to. (xiv),146pp. Colour plates. Line illustrations by Donald Downs. Original cloth; very good in a lightly scuffed and slightly sunned dust-jacket.

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London : George G. Harrap & Co., (1931). First Rackham edition. A handsome copy in the publisher's de-luxe binding - the great classic of angling literature delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Crown 4to. (224)pp. Twelve colour plates. Illustrations in text. Original publisher's full green morocco, ruled, lettered and blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; some minor rubbing; a few slight spots, but a very good copy.

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London : John Major, 1824. The second Major edition. Despite the publisher's introductory essay and verses (dismissed as a "farrago of twaddle" by Westwood & Satchell), a much admired edition, very prettily illustrated.
Foolscap 8vo. lviii,416pp. Fourteen plates, mainly by W.R.Smith from the eighteenth century designs of Samuel Wale. Seventy-seven wood engravings by Bonner, White, Hughes, and others. Contemporary half black sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled sides; just lightly rubbed; lacks front free endpaper; a few slight marks, spots and small flaws; neat name on reverse of frontispiece, but overall a nice copy.

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London : Pelham Books, (1975). Second and best edition. Originally published in 1960, but here completely rewritten and updated. A straightforward complete guide to all matters angling.
Demy 8vo. 246,[ii]pp. Numerous illustrations. Original boards. Mild spotting of top edge, but a very good copy in a just lightly used dust-jacket.

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