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Lot 113
[ANGLING] Two nineteenth century angling books,
including: OLIVER, STEPHEN [=CHATTO, WILLIAM ANDREW] Scenes and Recollections of Fly-Fishing, in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland. London: Chapman and Hall, 1834. First edition. Publisher's patterned cloth, spine titled and decorated in gilt., housed in a custom gilt black morocco backed slipcase and chemise. 6 3/4 x 4 inches (17 x 10 cm); [4], 212 pp., title-page vignette, headpiece, tailpiece, and in-text illustrations. Wear to extremities, a few pale stains to cloth, cloth cracked along upper joint, contents with intermittent spotting. Together with: WILLIAMSON, T.[HOMAS], Captain. The Complete Angler's Vade-Mecum. Being a Perfect Code of Instruction... London: Payne and Mackinlay, etc., 1808. Contemporary diced calf, boards ruled in gilt, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. xi, [1], 316 pp. with 10 engraved plates at rear. Wear to boards, spine dry and cracking with losses at the head and tail, hinges cracked, intermittent spotting and toning, armorial bookplate and ink ownership signatures.
Westwood & Satchell, p.162 (OLIVER) and p. 241 (WILLIAMSON). (2)
C Property from the Collection of Alastair Bradley Martin
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