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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 (24cm). xii,274pp. Eight plates. Four photogravures. Two colour plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt; some slight spotting, mainly of edges; endpapers a little tanned, but a very good, bright and sound copy in the original dust-jacket - just lightly worn and a little tanned. Neat contemporary (1912) inscription of A. G. D. Moger of Bath on front free endpaper.

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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 : 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 (179 x 132mm). 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. The great classic of angling literature, here delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Crown 4to. (224)pp. Twelve tissue-guarded colour plates. Illustrations in text. Bound in a fine slightly later (mid twentieth-century) half green crushed morocco by Frost & Co. of Bath, banded and gilt with a variety of angling motifs in compartments; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; a few slight spots; frontispiece tissue slightly creased, but overall a handsome 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.

£125

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