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Sale 235: The Angling Library of Jeffrey Norton (#235) 01/24/2002 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #25 The Angler's Pocket Companion; or, Compleat English Angler: Containing all that is necessary to be known in that Art. Also, Nobbs's Celebrated Treatise on the Art of Trolling. With Appendix, in which are Improvements and Discoveries, Never Before Published.

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Title:

The Angler's Pocket Companion; or, Compleat English Angler: Containing all that is necessary to be known in that Art. Also, Nobbs's Celebrated Treatise on the Art of Trolling. With Appendix, in which are Improvements and Discoveries, Never Before Published.

Author:

**

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

James Aspern

Date Published:

1805

Description:

148 pp. 5¾x3¾, later half calf & cloth, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Third Edition.

This is the primary edition listed in Westwood & Satchell, p.11; the first two editions, listed in passing, were undated (the first edition is thought to have appeared c.1800). The third edition appears in two issues, with and without a frontispiece. Robert Nobbs's treatise was originally printed in 1682.

Condition:

A few scuffs along the joints; title-page and final text leaf with some soiling, glue residue along gutter margins from rebinding, else very good.

Item#:

110848
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