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The Gentleman Angler containing short, plain and easy instruction whereby the most ignorant beginner may in a short time become a perfect artist in angling ... to which is added a treatise concerning Thames fishing ... Together with an appendix containing the method of rock and sea fishing, an alphabetical explanation of technical words ... choice receipts for dressing fish, and how to improve barren ground by turning it into fish ponds, London: for C. Hitch, [? 1743]. 12 (some light soiling), 19th-century black half morocco (spine rubbed and faded).
"Third edition," in fact a re-issue of the second edition of 1736 with an altered title page. The work first appeared under the imprint of A. Bettesworth in 1726. The author is described on the title page as "a gentleman who has made angling his diversion upwards of twenty-eight years." W. & S. p. 105; Petit 1061.
"Third edition," in fact a re-issue of the second edition of 1736 with an altered title page. The work first appeared under the imprint of A. Bettesworth in 1726. The author is described on the title page as "a gentleman who has made angling his diversion upwards of twenty-eight years." W. & S. p. 105; Petit 1061.