salmonidae westmorland angling reminiscences leaves de braithwaite (10 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. In lovely fresh condition internally, there is just a little fraying around the spine edges and bumping to corners.

Sm Octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind decoration & gilt angling illus to front board, frontispiece, 188pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffign to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to front gutter, light foxing to prelims & terminals).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1884). 1884 1st edition. 12mo (130 x 188mm). Ppxii,188. 4 engraved plates. Rebound in plain black cloth with gilt titles to upper board, marbled end-papers. Neatly rebound. Lacks end-paper and title-page else clean copy. Despite its rather heavy title, this is largely a book of angling stories - mainly the author's efforts with the fly, but he also enjoyed trolling the minnow, fishing the otter-board, and trimmer-fishing for pike. "His descriptions are careful and happy, his humour always abundant, and his enjoyment in cottage homes and wayside hotels, where he met hospitable and interesting characters on his fishing excursions, is pencilled in with a grace and accuracy which lend a charm to his little book not often surpassed by the best of writers." (Braithwaite's obituary in the Kendal Mercury and Times, quoted by Keith Harwood in Fish and Fishers of the Lake District). "In 48 years of fishing the Lune, Braithwaite never caught a trout of over one pound in weight." (Harwood). .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1884). 1884 1st edition. 12mo (130 x 188mm). Ppxii,188. 4 engraved plates. Green cloth with gilt vignette on upper board. Slight use & browning, cloth slightly stained but a good copy. Despite its rather heavy title, this is largely a book of angling stories - mainly the author's efforts with the fly, but he also enjoyed trolling the minnow, fishing the otter-board, and trimmer-fishing for pike. "His descriptions are careful and happy, his humour always abundant, and his enjoyment in cottage homes and wayside hotels, where he met hospitable and interesting characters on his fishing excursions, is pencilled in with a grace and accuracy which lend a charm to his little book not often surpassed by the best of writers." (Braithwaite's obituary in the Kendal Mercury and Times, quoted by Keith Harwood in Fish and Fishers of the Lake District). "In 48 years of fishing the Lune, Braithwaite never caught a trout of over one pound in weight." (Harwood). .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1884). 1884 1st edition. 12mo (130 x 188mm). Ppxii,188. 4 engraved plates. Green cloth with gilt vignette on upper board. Lacks front end-paper. Grassington Angling Club stamps. Good-plus. Despite its rather heavy title, this is largely a book of angling stories - mainly the author's efforts with the fly, but he also enjoyed trolling the minnow, fishing the otter-board, and trimmer-fishing for pike. "His descriptions are careful and happy, his humour always abundant, and his enjoyment in cottage homes and wayside hotels, where he met hospitable and interesting characters on his fishing excursions, is pencilled in with a grace and accuracy which lend a charm to his little book not often surpassed by the best of writers." (Braithwaite's obituary in the Kendal Mercury and Times, quoted by Keith Harwood in Fish and Fishers of the Lake District). "In 48 years of fishing the Lune, Braithwaite never caught a trout of over one pound in weight." (Harwood). .

1st Edn,. 188 pages, Frontis and 3 other full page plates, new end papers, green cloth with gilt fishing vignette to upper board, vg.

LeatherBound. Condición: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 216. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1884 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 216.

1st Edn,. 188 pages, Frontis and 3 other full page plates, 2 neat lines in ink hand-written to errata page margin, green cloth with gilt fishing vignette to upper board, head of spine rubbed.

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

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