Lot 93
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BLACKER, William. Art of Angling and Complete System of Fly Making and Dying with Colours, London: published by the author W. Blacker, fly maker, March 1842. Small 12, engraved frontispiece, engraved title and one plate (page edges browned), contemporary embossed calf, flat spine lettered in gilt (spine worn at head, joints slightly split, chip to upper board), g.e.
BLACKER, William. Art of Angling and Complete System of Fly Making and Dying with Colours, London: published by the author W. Blacker, fly maker, March 1842. Small 12, engraved frontispiece, engraved title and one plate (page edges browned), contemporary embossed calf, flat spine lettered in gilt (spine worn at head, joints slightly split, chip to upper board), g.e.

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BLACKER, William. Art of Angling and Complete System of Fly Making and Dying with Colours, London: published by the author W. Blacker, fly maker, March 1842. Small 12, engraved frontispiece, engraved title and one plate (page edges browned), contemporary embossed calf, flat spine lettered in gilt (spine worn at head, joints slightly split, chip to upper board), g.e.

FIRST EDITION of a small but celebrated book. W. & S. p. 32: "The work is a strange medley of practical usefulness and rhapsodical extravagance. The instructions for fly-making are peculiarly precise and clear"; Petit 209.

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