Best's Art of Angling. To which is added Nobb's Complete Troller. Twelth Edition, carefully revised, corrected, and Re-Arranged, by John Jackson.
by BEST, THOMAS; NOBBES, ROBERT; JACKSON, JOHN:
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- Hardcover
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Thomas Tegg, 1838. Engraved frontispiece of flies, engraved title vignette. 12mo (5 x 3 3/4 inches), pages: viii:246:(2; advertisements), original green cloth blocked in blind to sides and gilt to spine, all edges gilt. Binding lightly damp mottled, frontispiece foxed, title age toned. Inner hinges pulled but firm. Near contemporary inscriptiion on front free endpaper. Overall a good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Best's Art of Angling. To which is added Nobb's Complete Troller. Twelth Edition, carefully revised, corrected, and Re-Arranged, by John Jackson.
- Author
- BEST, THOMAS; NOBBES, ROBERT; JACKSON, JOHN:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Thomas Tegg, 1838.
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Bristow and Garland
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Shaftesbury, Dorset
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 12mo
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
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