Author: Philip Geen
Title: What I Have Seen While Fishing and How I Have Caught My Fish
Description: Richmond, Philip Geen, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A privately printed autobiographical account of the author's long career in angling, complete with illustrations. Describing the author's experiences fishing in three parts: for pollack, salmon and trout in Ireland, for salmon in Scotland during spring, and fishing in the Home Counties.Written by Philip Geen, the President of the London Angler's Association, an important advocate for the conversation of fisheries and for helping to bring about the angler's privilege ticket for rail travel, allowing city dwellers to economically travel to cleaner and less polluted water. He also created his own fishing tackle.Printed privately for the author; a first edition, first impression.Containing the ownership bookplate of Charles G. Brown, Advocate in Aberdeen.Illustrated with seventy-three plates.A lovely, privately printed work on fishing. In the original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with a little bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Ownership bookplate to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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