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McDONALD, JOHN. - The Origins of Angling. assisted by Sherman Kuhn and Swight Webster and the editors of Sports Illustrated with Paintings by John Langley Howard And A New Printing Of The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle Attributed to Dame Juliana Berners.

Title: The Origins of Angling. assisted by Sherman Kuhn and Swight Webster and the editors of Sports Illustrated with Paintings by John Langley Howard And A New Printing Of The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle Attributed to Dame Juliana Berners.
Description: Lge. 4to; ppxiii, 273; 4 pages of The Berners Trout Flies in colour; appendicies; dustjacket chipped with minor tears; a good copy. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. The Treatise Of Fishing With an Angle is believed to be the first published essay on sport fishing. In John McDonalds discussion of this unusual manuscript, he shows how the meaning of sport may be found in the joining of chivalry and learning.

Keywords: fishing fly fishing angling origin

Price: AUD 35.00 = appr. US$ 24.22 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 103380