The North Country Angler; or the Art of Angling: as practised in the Northern Counties of England

iv, 89, [3] pp. 12mo, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. Fourth edition. Full mottled calf, moss-green morocco spine label, triple fillet border and angling vignette to boards, gilt dentelles, t.e.g. by Root. Bookplates of J. G. Heckscher and Lars Edstrand. Fine.

Chatto notes of this work, “Ought to have been called ‘The Northe Country Poacher’,” for its anonymous author advocated the use of a readily concealable folding rod. A beautiful copy Westwood and Satchell p. 13.

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