The Art of Angling; or, Compleat Fly-Fisher: Describing the Different Kinds of Fish, Their Haunts, Places of Feeding, and Retirement; with an Account of the Generation of Fishes, and Observations on the Breeding of Carp, together with Directions How to Regulate Pools or Ponds; also, the Various Kinds of Baits, and the Great Diversity of Flies that Nature Produces; to which Are Added, Directions for Making Artificial Flies. Illustrated with many new improvements in the art of angling.
Birmingham: Printed by and for Swinney & Walker, 1792. Sixth edition (first published in 1758). 12mo. xi, 118, (2, ad leaf) pp. Engraved frontispiece affixed to verso of front wrapper. Small trade label affixed to base of frontispiece: "John Higginbotham / Fishing-Rod Maker / (From Drury Lane) / At the..... More