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Lot 121
[ANGLING] Four 19th century works on angling.
Comprises BOWLKER, CHARLES. Bowlker's Art of Angling... Ludlow: Richard Jones, 1833. Revised edition. 20th century blue cloth with leather spine label. 6 5/8 x 3 7/8 inches (17 x 10 cm); vi, 154 pp.; colored frontispiece, woodcut illustrations. Light wear; together with WHEATLEY, HENRY. The Rod and Line, or Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, etc. London: Longman [etc.], 1849. First edition. Three-quarters brown calf, marbled sides. 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches (17 x 10.5 cm); 157, [1] pp., with 9 fine hand-colored plates of artificial flies and lures, finished with gold and gum arabic. Light binding wear, Newberry Library stamp on title, part perforated and in blind, deaccession stamp, Field Museum Ayer bookplate and that of Wilbur G. Downs. Light wear, generally a clean copy internally; JACKSON, JOHN. The Practical Fly Fisher; more particularly for Grayling or Umber. London: Gibbings & Co., 1899. Fourth edition. Publisher's green cloth. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (21 x 13.5 cm); 72 pp.; hand-colored plates. Some binding wear, clippings and a circulation sleeve remnant mounted to rear endpaper; and FRANCIS, FRANCIS. Angling Reminiscences. London: Horace Cox, 1887. First edition. Three-quarters brown morocco with emblematic spine. 7 x 4 7/8 inches (18 x 12 cm); [vi], 278 pp. Slight spotting. Herbert Horne's copy, with his bookplate laid-in. (4)
C The Property of a New England Family
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