[Rarebooks] FS: THE COMPLEAT FISHERMAN, 1724, with frontispiece

[Charles Agvent]

SAUNDERS, James. THE COMPLEAT FISHERMAN. BEING A LARGE AND PARTICULAR 
ACCOUNT, OF ALL THE SEVERAL WAYS OF FISHING NOW PRACTISED IN EUROPE... 
London: W. Mears and S. Tooke, 1724. First Edition. ...WITH ABUNDANCE OF 
CURIOUS SECRETS AND NICETIES IN THE ART OF FISHING, AS WELL IN THE SEA, 
AS IN LAKES, MEERS, PONDS, RIVERS OR BROOKES; WHETHER BY DARTS, SPEARS, 
HARPOONS, NETS, HOOK AND LINE, OR ANY OTHER WAY WHATSOEVER. MORE 
PARTICULARLY CALCULATED FOR THE SPORT OF ANGLING. WITH DIRECTIONS FOR 
PREPARING THE ANGLE RODS, LINES, HOOKS, AND BAITS, PROPER FOR EVERY PART 
OF THE SPORT RESPECTIVELY; AND ALSO FOR THE ANGLER'S CONDUCT IN RIGHTLY 
APPLYING THEM. ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL RIVERS, LAKES, &C. 
IN ENGLAND; AND WHAT KINDS OF FISH ARE MORE ESPECIALLY FOUND IN THEM. 
COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORS, AND FROM THE LONG EXPERIENCES OF.... 
Duodecimo (12mo: 3-3/4" x 6-1/4") bound in later full green morocco 
rebacked at an early date with gilt rules and spine lettering, new 
endpapers, all edges gilt; [6], 234 pages. Illustrated with a lovely 
copper-engraved folding frontispiece showing fishermen on and by a river 
engaging in different methods of fish catching with depictions of four 
types of fish above them. From a public library with its small ink stamp 
at the bottom of the title and colophon pages as well as the bottom 
blank margin of the frontispiece; gilt call number at base of spine and 
bookplate removal at front pastedown. Very clean otherwise. Internally 
Near Fine in a Very Good binding.                     $900.00	

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