West Strand, London: John W. Parker. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1845. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. In the original blind-stamped (decorated) brown cloth boards with bright gilt titling 'Book of Fishes' to the front board. Boards are a little patchily faded/marked but tight and sound and the book looks good. Printed by Harrison and Co. , London. The page fore-edges are slightly browned and there is some very light foxing, a few marks and some inky 'Thumbing', but overall the book is pretty clean, thight and bright. There is a former owners' note in Welsh on the front free endpaper. (viii) +160 pp. A lovely b/w full page frontispiece of 'The Interior of a pilchard-curing house, in Cornwall by Whimper. Illustrated in the text with b/w woodcuts of various fish and fish related items! Most of the book discusses various Fish, where they are found, piscatorial histories, descriptions of each "fish tribe" enlivened with quotations and curious anecdotes, etc, etc, but the very last Chapter is entitled 'The Art of Angling' (14 pp) with a final page (1) illustrating 'Knots for Anglers'. Overall, apart form the minor 'faults' mentioned above, this is a Clean, Tight and Bright copy. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall .

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Bookseller: Sue Lloyd-Davies Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 110063
Title: The Book of Fishes - (Class PISCES)
Author: Anon
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: Fifth Edition
Publisher: John W. Parker
Place of Publication: West Strand, London
Date Published: 1845
Keywords: The Book Of Fishes - Class PISCES, The Art Of Angling; Knots For Angling; Fishing, Fish; Salmon; Sea-trout; Mullet; Flat Fish ; Sucking Fish
Bookseller catalogs: Naval/Maritime; British Topography; Illustrated; Natural History;

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Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...