Book of the Salmon: In Two Parts. Part I. The Theory, Principles, and Practice of Fly-Fishing for Salmon; With Lists of Salmon-Flies For Every Good River In the Empire; Part II. The Natural History of the Salmon, all its Known Habits Described, and the Best Way of Artificially Breeding it Explained

Ephemera [Fitzgibbon, Edward]

Edité par Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London, 1850

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8vo, xvi, 242 pp, bound in marbled boards backed with crushed black morocco, raised in six bands at the spine, with gilt florets and decorative compartments. t.e.g. Illustrated with 9 plates, eight of them hand-colored, printed the Adlards. Provenance: From the library of Jane des Grange, with her engraved ex libris tipped onto ffep. First edition of a landmark work in the history of fly-fishing for salmon, known for the brilliance and clarity of the hand-colored plates depicting flies, as well as the clear prose style and depictions of salmon rivers in the UK, Scotland, and Wales. Westwood & Satchell p. 86 (Highly esteemed). Leather rubbed at hinges and extremities, lightly affecting the title and gilt at spine; cloth rubbed, with some minor swelling to the upper boards, likely from exposure to moisture, some minor foxing withing, otherwise a sound very good example, with the plates well-preserved and bright.

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• Titre: Book of the Salmon: In Two Parts. Part I. The Theory, Principles, and Practice of Fly-Fishing for Salmon; With Lists of Salmon-Flies For Every Good River In the Empire; Part II. The Natural History of the Salmon, all its Known Habits Described, and the Best Way of Artificially Breeding it Explained
• Éditeur: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London
• Date de parution: 1850
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First edition.
• État de l'article: Assez bon
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Angling
  • Fly Tying