Author: WEBSTER David
Title: The Angler and the Loop-Rod. NEAR FINE COPY
Description: Blackwood, Edinburgh,, 1885. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 3 coloured plates of flies, a monochrome plate of tackles, and 3 illustrations and a full-page map in the text; original green pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in black, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, a remarkably bright, crisp copy. With 2pp of advertisements, and 24pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. 'A most unusual book. Webster used nine flies and no reel when fishing for trout' (Hampton). Hampton p.290. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Keywords: sports, angling, fishing, fly-fishing, loop-rod, david webster,


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