The compleat troller, or, The art of trolling : with a description of all the utensils, instruments, tackling, and materials requisite thereto, with rules and directions how to use them : as also a brief account of most of the principal rivers in England

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[The Art of Trolling: With Colonial American Provenance] Small octavo. Bound in contemporary leather. Rubbing. Moderate toning. [20], 78, [2] pages, 2 woodcut engravings. Nobbes was the first to write extensively on the subject of trolling, and has come to be called "the father of trolling." Rivers in England included in Nobbes' treatise: Avon, Cham, Swift, Ouse, Humber, Trent, Tine [Tyne], Tweed, Severne, Thames, Chester, Dove, Medway, Tame [Thames]. Refs: Wing N1193; Westwood & Satchell, p. 156; ESTC R202195; Pforzheimer 2:771. Provenance: Charles Hardy's armorial bookplate on front pastedown, Delapree. (Delapree was a Norman-era monastery in Northampton, England that became a private residence after the 1538 Dissolution of the Monasteries.) Charles Hardy (1714-1780) was a colonial governor of New York (1755-1757) and a British Admiral. Angling collector J. C. Lynn's Bibliotheca Piscatoria Lynniana's circular piscean bookplate on front free endpaper. Nobbes preface dedicates the book to James Tryon, Esq. of Northamptonshire. Interestingly, Charles Tryon's grandson William was the colonial governor of North Carolina and New York a few years after Hardy.). N° de ref. del artículo 1612230026

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