GREY, ZANE * ASHAWAY FISHING LINESBiblio.com
OLIVER the Younger StephenBiblio.com
Scenes and Recollections of Fly-Fishing in Northumberland Cumberland and Westmorland. IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
183424820Chapman & Hall 1834. Sm. 8vo. First and Sole Edition with engraved title-vignette and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout front free endpaper and title lightly spotted; original patterned cloth; gilt back uncut backstrip chipped not affecting lettering at head and tail joints lightly rubbed with two or three small losses of cloth else a remarkably bright crisp clean copy in wholly unrestored contemporary binding. With the nineteenth century trade ticket of Combe of Leicester on front paste-down. 'Stephen Oliver the Younger' so titled is the pseudonym of William Andrew Chatto. A minor angling classic this work contains two sings 'The Angler's Call' and 'The Angler's Invitation' which were afterwards included in the 'Newcastle Fishers' Garlands'. In the appendix the author gives a well-written review of the older angling literature frequently quoted by Westwood & Stachell. Westwood & Satchell p.162. Chapman & Hall, hardcover
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