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1939rif. 33456A&C Black 1939. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispiece and monochrome plates title mildly browned at edges; brown cloth gilt back green top a very good bright clean copy. Bright copy of an angling classic and the last of the author's works published in his lifetime. Hampton p.256. A&C Black, hardcover
1847rif. 33587Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1847. Sm. 8vo. First Edition with woodcut illustrations in the text; original green ribbed cloth boards with multiple frame borders in blind gilt back uncut cream endpapers a remarkably well-reserved bright crisp copy. With personal armorial bookplate on front paste-down and binder's ticket of Westley & Clark on rear paste-down. CRISP ELEGANT COPY OF AN ANGLING CLASSIC IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. 'Highly esteemed. The chapters on fly-fishing are unusually clear and comprehensible' Westwood & Satchell. Westwood & Satchell pp. 85-6. Longman Brown Green and Longmans, hardcover
1870rif. 31795Frederick Warne 1870. 8vo. Second Edition on laid paper with coloured lithographed frontispiece original tissue guard present; the guard offset as intended 8 plates in monochrome and 17 illustrations in the text half-title and blank preliminaries very lightly spotted; original coarse-grain red cloth sides ruled in gilt back lettered in gilt and blocked with a pike motif gilt top bevelled boards uncut black endpapers a remarkably well-preserved bright clean crisp copy in wholly unrestored contemporary themed binding. With 2pp of publisher's advertisements at end and contemporary binder's ticket of Burn & Co on rear paste-down. Lovely copy of the second edition of this angling classic first published in 1865. AN UNUSUAL COPY IN THAT THE FRONTISPIECE IS COLOURED WHEREAS HAMPTON STATES MONOCHROME. A third and final edition followed in 1876. EXTREMELY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Hampton p.222; Westwood & Satchell pp.168-9. Frederick Warne, hardcover
1904rif. 28707L Upcott Gill 1904. 8vo. with frontispiece and very numerous woodcut illustrations a number full-page in the text; original green cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt patterned endpapers hinges tender but binding entirely sound a very good bright clean copy. With advertisement at front and 20pp catalogue at rear. 'A very complete book on late-nineteenth century angling methods Hampton'. Contains sections on Coarse Fish Pike Game Fish and Salt Water. Sound copy of a substantially enlarged nineteenth-century angling classic first published in 1888. Hampton p.74. L Upcott Gill, hardcover
1923rif. 29213Duckworth 1923. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece and plates free endpapers lightly browned neat contemporary signature on front paste-down and title; blue cloth upper board lettered in blind gilt back backstrip mildly sunned but all lettering entirely legible backstrip chafed without material loss at head and tail else a very good bright clean copy of a very scarce work. A classic of game fishing literature. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Duckworth, hardcover
1893rif. 25461Longmans Green & Co. 1893. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece original tissue guard present and 18 illustrations in the text; green pictorial cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black uncut backstrip mildly faded but all lettering wholly legible a very good bright clean copy. Reminiscences of sea-fishing pike fishing Ireland and the Itchen. Hampton p.153. Longmans Green & Co., hardcover
1834rif. 24820Chapman & Hall 1834. Sm. 8vo. First and Sole Edition with engraved title-vignette and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout front free endpaper and title lightly spotted; original patterned cloth; gilt back uncut backstrip chipped not affecting lettering at head and tail joints lightly rubbed with two or three small losses of cloth else a remarkably bright crisp clean copy in wholly unrestored contemporary binding. With the nineteenth century trade ticket of Combe of Leicester on front paste-down. 'Stephen Oliver the Younger' so titled is the pseudonym of William Andrew Chatto. A minor angling classic this work contains two sings 'The Angler's Call' and 'The Angler's Invitation' which were afterwards included in the 'Newcastle Fishers' Garlands'. In the appendix the author gives a well-written review of the older angling literature frequently quoted by Westwood & Stachell. Westwood & Satchell p.162. Chapman & Hall, hardcover
1986rif. 24323Witherby 1986. 4to. First Edition with coloured frontispiece 7 coloured plates and numerous monochrome photographs a number full-page and maps in the text book token mounted on front free endpaper; green cloth gilt back a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The rivers include Avon Wylie Nadder Bourne Ebble Beaulieu Stour Allen Piddle and Frome. Witherby, hardcover
1885rif. 21584Hamilton Adams 1885. 8vo. Third Edition with a lithographed frontispiece original tissue guard present engraved and printed titles 11 lithographed plates one depicting flies; all original tissue guards present and 10 woodcut illustrations in the text frontispiece and illustrated title mildly foxed; original ribbed green cloth gilt back yellow endpapers uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED a remarkably bright clean crisp copy. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end and single-leaf prospectus for the enlarged edition of Lloyd's Field Sports tipped in. The illustrations are by Haghe Landseer and Williams from paintings by Wilkie Landseer Simson and Cooke. 'Next to Walton himself there's no more engagingly discursive and allusive writer in the language. For the feel of fishing the sense of it I almost said the taste of it I know of no other to place him beside' Gingrich. A lovely copy of the best reissue; Scrope's classic treatise was first published in 1843. James was owner of Hurstmonceux Place in Sussex. Gingrich p.117 et seq.; Sage 183; Westwood & Satchell p.191. Hamilton Adams, hardcover
1823rif. 21796John Major Fleet-Street adjoining Serjeant's-Inn 1823. 8vo. First Major Edition with copper-engraved portrait frontispiece engraved title-vignette 13 fine copper-engraved plates including 2 of music scores and 77 woodcut illustrations and decorations in the text some light offsetting from frontispiece to title some very light and inoffensive spotting to some margins neat later nineteenth century inscription on blank preliminary; most attractively bound in mid-nineteenth full speckled brown calf boards with decorative gilt frame border back with five raised bands tooled in gilt second compartment with black leather label framed and lettered in gilt all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt marbled edges gilt doublures marbled endpapers joints lightly rubbed short splits in joints at head and tail but binding wholly sound an attractive copy of a perennial classic in period binding. The first Major edition is based on the fifth edition of 1676 the last published during Walton's lifetime and printed by Nicol at the Shakespeare Press. Major's typically extensive notes occupy pp.395-406. The plates are engraved by Cook and Pye from the old drawings by Wale which had been 'greatly heightened in the effect by the pencil of Mr. Frederick Nash' W&S. Coigny 23; Oliver 23; Slater p.28; Westwood & Satchell p.225. John Major, Fleet-Street, adjoining Serjeant's-Inn, hardcover
1854rif. 21798Nathaniel Cooke 1854. 8vo. Second Edition thus with a portrait frontispiece decorative and printed titles printed title-vignette facsimile of title of first edition 3 engraved plates of flies and 39 woodcut illustrations including 19 of fish and 3 of tackle and 3 of flies in the text; strongly bound in contemporary full calf sides with double frame border in blind neatly rebacked in calf to style back with brown leather label lettered in gilt marbled edges doublures tooled in blind marbled endpapers corners mildly rubbed a very good clean copy. Fitzgibbon's charming edition was first published in the previous year in Ingram's 'Illustrated Library'. It includes a biographical sketch of Walton condensed from Hawkins' edition of 1797. Westwood & Satchell term this 'a pretty and useful edition'. Westwood & Satchell p. 232. Nathaniel Cooke, hardcover
1826rif. 21812Thomas Tegg 1826. 2 vols. in 1. 16mo. Second Tegg Edition with an engraved frontispiece of 2 2 engraved title-vignettes and 30 woodcut illustrations the majority of fish in the text endpapers lightly age-stained; strongly bound in nineteenth-century full speckled calf sides with gilt frame border very neatly rebacked in calf to style back with four raised bands second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments ruled in gilt a very good bright crisp copy. WITH THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN NOT THE PLAYWRIGHT ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Includes the lives of the authors. A reprint of the 1797 Hawkins edition with neat woodcuts designed by W. Harvey and engraved by Williams and Thompson. Tragically this copy wants the engraved frontispiece to Part I. Coigney 22; Horne 33 Westwood & Satchell p.226. Thomas Tegg, hardcover
1892rif. 20360Sampson Low Marston & Co. 1892. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece original tissue guard present a plate original tissue guard present and numerous illustrations many full-page in the text free endpapers lightly browned; original green cloth gilt back green endpapers upper hinge cracked but binding entirely sound else a very good bright clean copy. With 10pp of trade advertisements many illustrated at end. The frontispiece and plate are by A W Cooper. Very scarce. Hampton p.211. Sampson Low Marston & Co., hardcover
1956rif. 18672Herbert Jenkins 1956. Sm. 8vo. Third Impression title faintly spotted; original blue cloth backstrip lettered in darker blue a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly age-soiled and chafed at edges. First published in 1954. One of the scarcest titles in the much sought-after 'How to Catch Them' series. Herbert Jenkins, hardcover
1896rif. 18420Privately Printed at the Telegraph Printing Works Bromley 1896. 8vo. First Edition with 47 plates; original plum cloth gilt back primrose endpapers backstrip very lightly faded else a very good clean copy. With 4pp of trade advertisements at end. SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Hampton p.112; Westwood & Satchell Morton p.245. [Privately Printed at the] Telegraph Printing Works, Bromley, hardcover
1906rif. 18506T Fisher Unwin 1906. 8vo. Second Impression with 37 plates on 31title very lightly spotted free endpapers lightly browned; original brown cloth upper board lettered in red gilt back covers mildly age-faded else a very good tight copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR'S SON WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED 1907 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. THIS COPY WAS SUBSEQUENTLY IN THE SPORTING LIBRARY OF THE LEICESTERSHIRE WORTHY NOEL B SPURWAY AND BEARS HIS FINE PICTORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Second and third parts of 'What I have seen while Fishing and how I have caught my Fish' first published publicly in 1905 and subsequently reissued privately in two separate sections to meet demand. Section I was reissued under the title 'Fishing in Ireland'. A minor classic describing salmon fishing on the Rivers Tay and Lyon and a few chapters on coarse fishing around London. Scarce especially in this condition. Hampton p.113 T Fisher Unwin, hardcover
1946rif. 17534Constable 1946. Sm. 8vo. First Edition with 9 plates; original blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver a near fine copy. Fishing for salmon and trout in Norway Scotland and Hampshire. VERY SCARCE. Hampton p.35. Constable, hardcover
1903rif. 16834F E Robinson 1903. 8vo. First Edition with a portrait frontispiece; original green cloth a very good clean copy. With trade advertisements at rear F E Robinson, hardcover
1936rif. 16984Bazaar Exchange & Mart Office n.d. c.1936. 4 works in 1 vol. 8vo. Seventh Edition the four divisions separately titled and paginated with a frontispiece 23 plates and over 320 illustrations and diagrams in the text; original plum cloth upper board with blind frame border enclosing title and author lettered in gilt gilt back backstrip lightly sunned but all lettering wholly legible else a very good bright clean copy. With trade advertisements throughout. The work comprises Division I: Angling for Coarse Fish. Fifth Edition revised Courtney Williams; Division II: Angling for Pike. Tenth Edition revised Courtney Williams; Division III: Angling for Game Fish. Seventh Edition revised Courtney Williams; Division IV: Angling in Salt Water. Sixth Edition revised Arthur Bell. A very nice copy of 'the most widely read work on angling in the world' Publisher's Note. Hampton p.75. Bazaar, Exchange & Mart Office, hardcover
1960rif. 15927Thorsons 1960. Sm. 8vo. First Edition with numerous diagrams and plans in the text title and fore-edges spotted; newly bound in green buckram upper board with printed paper label ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED front wrapper age-soiled else a firm copy of an extremely scarce work. Thorsons, hardcover
1854rif. 12083Nathaniel Cooke 1854. 8vo. Second Edition thus with portrait frontispiece decorative and printed titles printed title-vignette facsimile of title of first edition 3 engraved plates of flies and 39 woodcut illustrations including 19 of fish and 6 of tackle in the text some very light dust-soiling; original mid-green cloth elaborately blocked in blind green top yellow endpapers neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down new paper label on backstrip an attractive copy in sympathetically restored publisher's binding. Fitzgibbon's charming edition was first published in the previous year in Ingram's 'Illustrated Library'. It includes a biographical sketch of Walton condensed from Hawkins' edition of 1797. Westwood & Satchell term this 'a pretty and useful edition'. Westwood & Satchell p.232. Nathaniel Cooke, hardcover
1892rif. 11101Henry Sotheran 1892. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece 11 coloured plates several of flies and hackles; all with original tissue guards present 3 plates in monochrome with original tissue guards double-page plate and 9 illustrations in the text contemporary signature and address on front free endpaper; original pictorial ivory buckram upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt gilt back gilt top uncut covers moderately age-stained as usual corners lightly bruised else a firm clean crisp copy. A second edition of this angling classic appeared in 1894; both editions are scarce in any condition. Hampton p.246; Westwood & Satchell Supp p. 252. Henry Sotheran, hardcover
1816rif. 11147T. Tegg 1816. 8vo. Fourth Edition with a wood-engraved frontispiece a wood-engraved plate and 33 woodcut illustrations 5 full-page including a map of the Thames in the text frontispiece and title mildly age-stained some very light and occasional spotting to text; contemporary half calf marbled boards back with six flat gilt rules second compartment lettered in gilt very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down fore-edges a little dusty else a most attractive copy in period binding. The engraved plate shows hooks baited for trolling; the full-page engravings depict an epitaph in Stepney Church sniggling apparatus mackerel and bank-fishing. The work includes a glossary of terms. The first edition of this angling classic appeared in 1814. Second and third editions respectively expanded appeared in the following year. 'This edition contains a new method of fishing for salmon in the River Lea which has been attended with much success and called by the author dragging or snatching for salmon'. Author's Preface. SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION. Westwood & Satchell p.186. T. Tegg, hardcover
1835rif. 10707Charles Tilt 1835. 8vo. First Edition with engraved frontispiece and title 31 engraved plates text framed within a series of repeating woodcut borders frontispiece and title moderately spotted some mild age-staining mainly marginal to a few leaves of text; original ribbed green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt back in pictorial gilt extra very neatly rebacked old backstrip laid down gilt top yellow endpapers uncut a very good bright clean copy. A classic of the genre. Chatto also authored 'Scenes and Recollections of Fly-Fishing in Northumberland Cumberland and Westmoreland' and contributed to the Newcastle 'Garlands'. 'The work is clever and caustic and contains a critique of several of the angling books of the day' Westwood & Satchell. SCARCE. Westwood & Satchell p.93. Charles Tilt, hardcover
1878rif. 6354Longmans and Co. 1878. 8vo. Third and Best Edition with an engraved illustration in the text; original cloth covers blocked in decorative gilt and blind an unusually bright clean copy. First published in 1857 with a second edition in 1866 this classic treatise takes the form of genial dialogues between novice and master based on more than two decades of practical experience. This is the best and most expanded edition: 'the reader will not have not only the original copy revised but a great amount of useful information on Angling which hitherto has not been published'. Author's Introduction to the current edition. The numerous additions include a brief sketch of the author's career new chapters on Throwing from the Reel and Winter Fishing remarks on the finding of new swims and practical hints on the killing powers and bends of hooks among many others. Westwood & Satchell considers Bailey 'the best Nottingham angler of his day'. Westwood & Satchell p.20. Longmans and Co., hardcover
