By Lake and River: an Angler's Rambles in the North of England and Scotland by Francis Francis 1822-1886 - 2013-01-28

The Field, 1874. Hardcover. Good. 1874. No edition remarks. 415 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages have mild tanning and moderate foxing throughout. Mild annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Mild cracking to gutters, with exposed binding. Pencil inscription to front pastedown and endpapers. Heavy foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate scratching and marking to boards. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.

The Field, 1874. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1874. No Edition Remarks. 415 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Rebound with new end papers and sections of new cloth. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Previous owner inscriptions to prelims and title page. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Gilt lettering is dulled.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

London, “The Field” Office, 1874 1st. Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design to spin and front. Plain endpapers. In good condition. Some minor dakrening and handling marks to boards, some rubbing to edges and corners, ends of spine chipped. Glue repairs to hinges between endpapers. Inscription to front “F.D. How,” “A.E. Chapman.” Some minor tanning to pages, the odd handling spot and neat pencil note else pages clean and tight. 415pp + cat. Not illustrated.

London: The Field " Office, 1874. 1st Edition. Original Cloth. Fair/N/a. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Illustrations. 412pp. A first edition copy bound in original green cloth binding with gilt embossed lettering to the front board and spine. The textblock is clean and tight, being in good condiiton with the bindning only being fair. Damp staining to the boad and rubbing to the head and tail of the spine with some splitting and loss of the cloth. There is some splitting to the front and rear inner hinges revealing the webbing - leaving the boards a little shaken. Some light staining to the extreme tail of the end papers and advertisement pages at the rear of the book and a little soiling to the fore edges - though not affecting the page margins. The textblock as mentioned is clean, tight and compelte. A fair /good copy.

Hardback. New.

The Field, 1874. First Edition. Hardback. Good. xii, 415pp plus ads. Pub. Green cloth with gilt dec. Pages clean crack in the hinge. Boards a little rubbed Good +

Hardback. New.

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