![The Complete Fisherman; or, Universal Angler containing full directions for all kinds of river fish ... to which is added the whole art of fly-fishing ... likewise a compendious account of the principal sea-fish, London: for Fielding and Walker, [1778?]. 12, engraved frontispiece dated 1st April 1778, 2 advertisement leaves at end, early 19th-century full green morocco by R. T. Harris, Exeter, sides with elaborate gilt fillet borders, spine directly lettered in the central compartment between two raised bands and dated at foot, the bands decorated with black calf onlays and gilt-tooling, angling ornament in upper and lower compartment, gilt inner dentelles and patterned endpapers, contemporary marbled wrapper preserved at rear, t.e.g., others uncut.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CSK/1999_CSK_08635_0107_000(120603).jpg?w=1)
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The Complete Fisherman; or, Universal Angler containing full directions for all kinds of river fish ... to which is added the whole art of fly-fishing ... likewise a compendious account of the principal sea-fish, London: for Fielding and Walker, [1778?]. 12, engraved frontispiece dated 1st April 1778, 2 advertisement leaves at end, early 19th-century full green morocco by R. T. Harris, Exeter, sides with elaborate gilt fillet borders, spine directly lettered in the central compartment between two raised bands and dated at foot, the bands decorated with black calf onlays and gilt-tooling, angling ornament in upper and lower compartment, gilt inner dentelles and patterned endpapers, contemporary marbled wrapper preserved at rear, t.e.g., others uncut.
A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Two other editions followed, also undated, but which have the dates 1780 and 1785 tentatively ascribed to them in ESTC. All three editions are rare. There is no copy of any edition in the British Library, and ESTC records only one copy of the first edition at the Houghton Library, Harvard. W. & S. p. 94 (third edition); Petit 980: "Magnifique exemplaire, superbement reli; frontispiece remarquable grav. Rare.'
A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Two other editions followed, also undated, but which have the dates 1780 and 1785 tentatively ascribed to them in ESTC. All three editions are rare. There is no copy of any edition in the British Library, and ESTC records only one copy of the first edition at the Houghton Library, Harvard. W. & S. p. 94 (third edition); Petit 980: "Magnifique exemplaire, superbement reli; frontispiece remarquable grav. Rare.'