The Compleat Troller, or, The Art of Trolling [Complete]

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32mo, 78pp., Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. Marbled endpapers. Old bookplate. Collated complete: (20), 78 pp. A small volume, 6 by 3.35 inches. Later binding of full green Morocco leather. Raised spine bands, gilt title lettering, and gilt-decorated inner dentelles. Evidently rebound some time in the 20th century, with new endpapers added and early printed marbled wraps also bound in. Binding is supple and unworn. Spine aged to a warm medium brown, as green-dyed leathers are prone to do. Borders of endpapers browned from contact with the dentelles. Text pages show typical age- toning and some edge chips, but fully legible with no stains or foxing. Title page dated 1682, but actually a facsimile printed circa 1790. Virtually identical to the 1682 1st edition, and differentiated only by minor typographical variations. (See Westwood & Satchell, Bibliotheca Piscatoria, p. 156, and Wing N1193.) A scarce 18th century printing of this classic angling treatise in a fine leather binding. Nobbes is considered "the father of trollers" for being the first writer to treat trolling techniques at length, although Izaak Walton and others touched upon the subject earlier. This work contains "a description of all the utensils, instruments, tackling, and materials" needed by the troller, along with "a brief account of most of the principal rivers in England." Illustrated by two woodcuts in the text. Provenance: Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown of noted angling author Joseph Delaplaine Bates, Jr. (1903-1988.) Bates's works include the modern classics Fishing Atlantic Salmon: The Flies and the Patterns and Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing. N° de ref. del artículo 025547

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