Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of All Nations to which is added a bibliography of English writers on angling

by BLAKEY, Robert. ID No.: 1980
AU$200.00

John Russell Smith London, 1856, 16mo, 335pp, in original dark blue cloth, Includes an excellent  bibliography of angling  works in the  English language.  " I have produced these miscellaneous materials respecting fish and fishing, from a desire to place in every anglers hand something like a historical sketch of the gentle art, and of the sayings and doings about it from bygone centuries." …Preface.   Near Fine.