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The Angler's Guide, Abridged for the Use of Young Anglers, Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling: Containing, The Art of Trolling and Fishing for Jack & Pike, Fly-Fishing & Making; Also, Bottom & Float Fishing, & Trimmer Angling, With Directions how to plumb the Depth, To bait the Hooks, to make paste,...How to lay Night-Lines and Sniggle for Eels,..And, the best Method of making Ground-Bait, &c. Founded on 40 Years and Experience
by SALTER, T.F
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About This Item
London. Sold for the Author by T. Tegg. 1816. 14.5cm, first abridged edition, xvi, 80p., frontis engraving, title-page vignette, 20 text wood-cuts, appendix, glossary, marbled endpapers & leaf endings, dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title, fine. Westwood & Satchell p187. An exceptionally fine copy of Salter's juvenile version of "The Angler's Guide, or Complete London Angler." (1814). A popular text, the book went through five editions by 1841. Published "to enable the fishing-tackle dealers to sell at a small price to the novice in angling" (Preface) The frontis is illustrations are of hooks baited for trolling. Includes a list of principal English rivers with the various kind of fish which they contain and a glossary of technical terms used in angling. Very scarce.
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- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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- Title
- The Angler's Guide, Abridged for the Use of Young Anglers, Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling: Containing, The Art of Trolling and Fishing for Jack & Pike, Fly-Fishing & Making; Also, Bottom & Float Fishing, & Trimmer Angling, With Directions how to plumb the Depth, To bait the Hooks, to make paste,...How to lay Night-Lines and Sniggle for Eels,..And, the best Method of making Ground-Bait, &c. Founded on 40 Years and Experience
- Author
- SALTER, T.F
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- London. Sold for the Author by T. Tegg. 1816
- Keywords
- fishing angling juvenile thames severn trent medway ouse itchin wye flyfishing hooks trolling
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- Angling and Fishing;
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