Author: John Bickerdyke
Title: The Book of the All-Round Angler: A Comprehensive Treatise on Angling in Both Fresh and Salt Water
Description: London, L. Upcott Gill, 1888. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this guidebook for angling with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, three plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed introduction to angling with sections on coarse fish, pike, game fish, and sea fish. Including chapters on general principles, bottom fishing, tackle, live-baiting, dead-baiting, trout, salmon, fishing for pleasure, fishing for profit, rod-fishing, and more. Written by John Bickerdyke, a British sporting writer on angling. Dated from the University of East Anglia Library. Bound in half calf with brown cloth boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards with cracks to the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot to the foredge. Light age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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