The Art of Angling; or, Complete Fly-Fisher: Describing the Different Kinds of Fish, Their Haunts, Places of Feeding, &c. &c.; also, Observations on the Breeding of Carp; and the Regulating of Pools or Ponds; To which Are Added, the Various Kinds of Baits, and Diversity of Flies which Nature Produces; Together with Ample Directions for Making Artificial Flies.
London: Printed for J. Richardson (printed by W. Lake, Uxbridge), nd [1820]. New edition, revised and corrected. 12mo in sixes. xii, 95 pp. Frontispiece. Westwood & Satchell, p. 89: "Another case of metempsychosis: Bowlker's 'Art of Angling,' with a few verbal changes and some transposition." Heckscher 687. Very good. Later olive three-quarter morocco, gilt, and pebbled cloth, gilt ornaments, rules, and title on spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. (8829). Item #61808
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