SHIPLEY, William. A True Treatise on the Art of Fly-Fishing, Trolling, etc., as practised on the Dove and on the principal streams of the midland counties edited by Edward Fitzgibbon, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1838, 12°, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, wood-engraved frontispiece and 4 illustrations on India paper, mounted, wood-engraved tail-piece (frontispiece stained and spotted on mount, title soiled, F11v and F12r stained at upper margin, severe ink staining to G12v and H1r, affecting illustration as well as text on H1, quires H-I much soiled at margins, outer margins of K7-8 frayed), contemporary green cloth (rebacked, preserving old spine). [Westwood & Satchell p. 194] -- [William Andrew CHATTO] Scenes and Recollections of Fly-Fishing in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland by Stephen Oliver, London: Chapman & Hall, 1834, 12°, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved vignettes (occasional light spotting), contemporary cloth, spine lettered in gilt (though frayed). [Westwood & Satchell p. 162] With 5 other 19th-century angling books. (7)

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SHIPLEY, William. A True Treatise on the Art of Fly-Fishing, Trolling, etc., as practised on the Dove and on the principal streams of the midland counties edited by Edward Fitzgibbon, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1838, 12°, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, wood-engraved frontispiece and 4 illustrations on India paper, mounted, wood-engraved tail-piece (frontispiece stained and spotted on mount, title soiled, F11v and F12r stained at upper margin, severe ink staining to G12v and H1r, affecting illustration as well as text on H1, quires H-I much soiled at margins, outer margins of K7-8 frayed), contemporary green cloth (rebacked, preserving old spine). [Westwood & Satchell p. 194] -- [William Andrew CHATTO] Scenes and Recollections of Fly-Fishing in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland by Stephen Oliver, London: Chapman & Hall, 1834, 12°, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved vignettes (occasional light spotting), contemporary cloth, spine lettered in gilt (though frayed). [Westwood & Satchell p. 162] With 5 other 19th-century angling books. (7)

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