A Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle

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Sale 437: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Private San Francisco Library with Important Angling & Sporting Books (#437) 09/16/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #11A Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,375

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Sale 437: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Private San Francisco Library with Important Angling & Sporting Books (#437) 09/16/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/16/2010 1:00 PM PDT

Description

Heading:

(Ashendene Press)

Title:

A Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle

Author:

Berners, Dame Juliana

Place Published:

[Chelsea]

Publisher:

[Ashendene Press]

Date Published:

[1903]

Description:

48 pp. Full-page illustration from an old woodcut, plus a few cuts in the text. 7¾x5¼, original vellum, spine lettered in gilt. One of 150 copies printed on paper.

Lovely printing of the first book on angling to be published in English. Wynkyn de Worde printed the original edition in 1496, from which the woodcuts in the present fine printing are taken. Ashendene Bibliography 16. Provenance: The Estelle Doheny copy, with her leather bookplate on front pastedown endpaper.

Condition:

Fine.

Item#:

218903

Headline:

Ashendene - Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle
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