"My Life as an Angler" 1880 Henderson, William

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HENDERSON, William

[349] pp.

William Satchell & Co.

1880

7 5/8" x 5 1/2"

Ex libris copy w/ drawing copy

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[349] pp.

William Satchell & Co.

1880

7 5/8" x 5 1/2"

Ex libris copy w/ drawing copy

*w/ bottom corner water staining condition noted*

One of the most sterling and attaching of modern angling books, and possesses several of the qualities that have rendered Iz. Walton's writings household words - his simplicity, naïveté and honest benevolence" (Westwood & Satchell).

Original green pictorial gilt cloth, t.e.g Woodburytype portrait frontispiece and 68 woodcuts engraved by Edmund Evans after various artists.

Chapters on fishing in Northumberland and the Borders. With an Appendix comprising a list of salmon and two poems by John Younger. See less