Item #239932 The Whole Art of Fishing. Being a Collection and Improvement of all that has been Written on this Subject ..

The Whole Art of Fishing. Being a Collection and Improvement of all that has been Written on this Subject.

London: Edmund Curll, 1714.

Price: $400.00


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First edition. Copper-engraved frontispiece of angling scene and Windsor Castle IN FACSIMILE. [vi], 111, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later full red morocco, a.e.g., by Bayntun (Riviere). Title page with perforated library stamp and library stamps on front pastedown. Westwood & Satchell, p. 18.

Item #239932

With the oft-lacking frontispiece in facsimile. Publisher's preface states: "This Treatise is a Collection of all that has been writ upon the subject of Fishing digested in a better Method than any before extant."