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1920224036Reading: privately printed 1920. With 6 photographic plates and two inserted photographs. 2 38 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green textured cloth title stamped in gilt on upper board speckled edges binder's ticket of Knill & Sons Reading. Fine. With 6 photographic plates and two inserted photographs. 2 38 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. Fisherman's Memoir: Pike and Thames Trout. Nostalgic privately produced memoir of angling in the Thames Valley a century ago. Chapman was a Reading tobacconist and a keen fisher and he recounts his experiences fishing on private lakes ponds and local rivers including the Kennet and Thames as well as misadventures in boats dense fogs notable catches of Pike and Thames trout and an incident of river pollution.<br/>The other copy we have seen varies slightly in the pagination and does not include the two photographs of sea fishing off the Cornwall coast.<br/>Curious interesting and uncommon. privately printed unknown books
1920224039Reading: privately printed 1920. With 6 photographic plates. 41 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Original green textured cloth titled stamped in gilt on upper board speckled edges. Bookplate of O.M. Reed "Omar" with his ownership signature dated August 1934 and annotations. Reed's draft of an essay and correspondence with A.E. Hobbs loosely inserted. Old cellotape mark along front pastedown where letter was tipped in. Fine. With 6 photographic plates. 41 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Fisherman's Memoir: Pike and Thames Trout. Nostalgic privately produced memoir of angling in the Thames Valley a century ago. Chapman was a Reading tobacconist and a keen fisher and he recounts his experiences fishing on private lakes ponds and local rivers including the Kennet and Thames as well as misadventures in boats dense fogs notable catches of Pike and Thames trout and an incident of river pollution.<br/>The other copy we have seen varies slightly in the pagination and the page format.<br/>Reed and his correspondent A.E. Hobbs discuss the book's author and identify most of the places alluded to in Chapman's narrative which includes a portrait of the author holding a 20-pound fish taken from the Thames.<br/>An uncommon work produced in just a few copies with an illuminating correspondence concerning this curious and interesting book. Not in Hampton's Angling Bibliography 1881-1949. Not in BL or OCLC privately printed unknown books
200433920Marlborough: Crowood Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 1861266480 . A guide to the waterside flowers flies and artificial flies of interest to the fisherman. Illustrated. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Crowood Press hardcover books
